A message from the Secretary

It’s been an incredible year for HSU members and standing up for what you know is right. We’ve seen some epic struggles, equal…

Time to end the bottlenecks: Over-servicing and waste

HSU members secured a historic Special Commission of Inquiry into Healthcare Funding this year – the first step toward preserving our universal healthcare system for our…

All I want for Christmas is 25% in Aged Care!

It’s been three years since HSU aged care members launched our Aged Care Work Value Case, advocating for fairness across the aged care sector and pushing…

NSW Government playing with lives over paramedic professional claim

Before the NSW election last year, Labor leader Chris Minns made a commitment to HSU paramedics: to honour the work of the Paramedic Taskforce established with…

Pathology push for a better industry

At the HSU Conference in May this year, delegates in the Private Health Division got together to tackle a serious problem: the private pathology industry. Delegates…

The need for urgent action to prevent increasing rates of alcohol harm

Caterina Giorgi, CEO, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) In September this year, data released from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)…

HSU calls out over-reliance on consultants

NSW Health has a consultancy problem. The reliance on consultants is truly staggering, running into very many millions of dollars. It’s often difficult to get a…

Overstretched ACT Radiation Therapists walk off the job

Canberra’s radiation therapists took action this year, walking off the job to demand a competitive pay increase to keep skilled professionals in the Territory. …

Award Reform: Time to get our broken and outdated public health awards fixed

HSU members across NSW Health have been struggling under outdated and unfit for purpose awards for years – but now, we’re finally moving ahead with negotiating…

HSU teams up to tackle NSW housing affordability crisis

Everyone knows we’re facing a housing crisis –  and no one is feeling it more than frontline healthcare workers who can’t afford to live anywhere near…

NRL great Greg Inglis & Goanna get deadly on mental health

Most would assume grand finals or State of Origin clashes would have been Indigenous NRL great Greg Inglis’ biggest challenges. But the versatile South Sydney star…

"It was a typical Tuesday for them:" Dubbo firefighter thanks paramedics

For Dubbo firefighter Josh Loxley it was the worst day of his life. For the highly trained paramedics who administrated the live-saving Tenecteplase that stopped a…