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Kat Wong and Tess Ikonomou

More nurses, midwives pushed for vaccine mandates

It's more than four years since the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in Australia. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

Hundreds of nurses and midwives quit their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic due to vaccine mandates but many thousands more backed them, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation federal secretary Annie Butler told a Senate committee on Thursday, hundreds of members rather than thousands, were stood aside due to their refusal of the COVID vaccine.

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