ANMF Vic Branch

20/08/2026

Join us at the Collab 2026!

🦉 MAJOR SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT 🦉

We are delighted to welcome the ANMF Vic Branch as a Major Sponsor of The Collab 2026 🌿

As Australia's largest union and professional nursing and midwifery organisation, the ANMF plays a vital role in advocating for nurses, midwives and carers, supporting workforce development, professional practice and better health outcomes for our communities.

The Collab is built on connection, collaboration and a shared commitment to improving mental health care. We are proud to partner with organisations that support and champion the nursing workforce and help create opportunities for learning, innovation and meaningful conversations.

Thank you to the ANMF for supporting The Collab 2026 and helping bring together mental health nurses, lived experience leaders, consumers, carers, educators, researchers and sector partners from across Australia.

📍 Marvel Stadium
📅 22–23 September 2026

✨ Our Wisdom. Our Voices. Our Future.

12/08/2026

Healthcare workers won’t be silenced! ANMF has serious concerns with AHPRA’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. ANMF condemns all forms of racism and strongly opposes antisemitism and all forms of racial or religious discrimination in healthcare. But this definition will not achieve its purpose, it will cause unnecessary harm, confusion and concern among nurses and midwives.

Join ANMF members and other unions on Friday at 4.30pm at 222 Lonsdale Street to stand together and demand that AHPRA drop the definition.

07/08/2026

WorkSafe Victoria has issued Barwon Health with a improvement notices in response to concerns raised by ANMF members and HSRs. 💪🏼

04/08/2026

Hannah Lacy began her nursing career thinking she’d never be confident to put a nasogastric tube in a neonate, but after 6 months it ‘became like bread and butter’. As overwhelmed as she felt, she knew it must be worse for families of the infants in the special care nursery.

So she wrote a book.

Frankie & Lenny in the Special Care Nursery is written and illustrated by Hannah, aiming to help siblings of unwell children understand the machines and other scary things they’ll encounter as their new family member is being cared for.

30/07/2026

Never. Ever. Say the q-word.

[Excerpt from ‘The Night Shift’ by Nancy Peach]

29/07/2026

Under most EBAs you’re entitled to a shift allowance. This is paid per shift and the rate depends on when your shift starts or ends. For example, in the public sector EBAs (clauses 34 (general) and 119 (MH)):
🟨morning: any shift starting between 6pm and 6.30am
🟨afternoon: any shift finishing between 6pm and 8am
🟨night: any shift finishing on the day after commencing duty or commences after midnight and before 5am
🟨Sunday night: starting on Sunday and finishing on Monday (part- and full-timers only)
For private acute, check your EBA for the shift definitions.

edited: please note some shift allowances and weekend work allowances are not payable on weekends or public holidays. Public holiday penalties are sometimes paid in substitution of public holiday rates, not in addition to. It's always good to check your EBA or submit a member assistance enquiry.

29/07/2026

Researchers from Monash University are inviting metropolitan public hospital nurses and midwives to participate in a survey about the working conditions that influence workforce retention.

The anonymous survey will take between 15 and 20 minutes.

Researchers from Monash University are inviting metropolitan public hospital nurses and midwives to participate in a survey about the working conditions that influence workforce retention.

28/07/2026

Today we pay tribute to Australian Council of Trade Union (ACTU) Secretary Sally McManus and president Michele O’Neil, who have announced they are leaving the organisation after nearly a decade, making them the longest serving ACTU leadership team since 1969.

‘Sally McManus and Michele O'Neil are giants of the union movement. All of us, including ANMF members, are better off because of their unflagging commitment to improving the lives of working Australians.’ – Maddy Harradence, Branch Secretary

‘Sally and Michele have demonstrated an unwavering commitment and conviction to securing ongoing IR reforms, fighting for fairer wages and conditions and safer workplaces. Their leadership has helped drive important policy campaigns on workplace rights, secure employment, cost-of-living, tax reforms and gender equity. As a predominantly-female union, the ANMF commends Sally and Michele for achieving so many significant IR legislative changes which have addressed legacy gender inequity in Australian workplaces. Notably, they helped win historic increases in award and minimum wages, which have benefitted low-paid care workers across the country.’ – Annie Butler, Federal Secretary

24/07/2026

Barwon Health nurses and midwives deserve to be safe at work, as well as travelling to and from their cars.

23/07/2026

‘Better support for our teachers, nurses and education staff means better support for kids like us. Please look after the people who look after us.’

Victorian state school nurses have been taking industrial action for nearly 90 days.

They’re currently paid up to 20% less and under the government’s wages policy, the pay difference could be up to 30% between comparable roles by the end of 2027.

There are 350 school nurses in Victoria who perform a critical role in promoting the health, wellbeing and development of state school students.

The Branch is also seeking a commitment from the Victorian Government to ensure the workloads of school nurses are safe and that the primary school nursing program is universally accessible to all Victorian families with children in their first year of school.

Solidarity with our teacher colleagues who are stopping work today for 24 hours. We will be at the march in our red t-shirts. Look out for our banner.