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Paramedics fight back: 'I find it therapeutic to change my hair colour'

'Colouring hair is very much part of that release of emotions.'

Newcastle Herald

Paramedic told: 'Do not return to work unless your hair is a normal colour'

Colleagues will colour their hair on Thursday to show solidarity.

Newcastle Herald

Ex-soldier Daniel Khalife changes plea to guilty of Wandsworth prison escape

Khalife pleads guilty part way through trial at Woolwich crown court but continues to deny other charges

The Guardian - UK

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Daniel Khalife pleads guilty to Wandsworth prison escape halfway through trial

The former soldier used a makeshift sling to escape under a food delivery truck

The Independent UK

Daniel Khalife guilty of escaping from prison

The 23-year-old former soldier continues to deny all the other charges against him.

Evening Standard

Daniel Khalife marked date for prison escape in diary, court told

Jurors were shown a page of his diary with an asterisk marking September 6 2023 – the day he was to escape.

Evening Standard

Disruption looms for Sydney commuters as union plans action – as it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

The Guardian - AU

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Cheap cafe at John Hunter Hospital set for closure, making workers 'hangry'

"It's been a big part of the hospital and community for years".

Newcastle Herald

Diana Asmar to Kimberley Kitching: The real backstory to this very mid Macbeth

The HWU has taken its low-paid, low-power, often non-English-speaking members for a ride for decades. And the ACTU has let them.

Crikey

Ten nurses and doctors assaulted every week in hospitals

Body-cams deployed in public hospitals to combat assaults.

Newcastle Herald

NSW government knocks back Inner West Council demerger proposal – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Paramedics get major pay rise in 'recognition' of role

A major health union and the government have agreed to a significant pay rise for NSW paramedics following months of negotiations.

AAP

Pay deal closer for paramedics after late night talks

Discussions ran late into the night between paramedic union representatives and the NSW government as the sides look to reach a long-awaited pay deal.

AAP

Triple-zero 'risk' as paramedics reject huge pay offer

A pay offer that would have lifted NSW paramedic pay by an average of 19 per cent - putting them nearly on par with interstate colleagues - has been rejected.

AAP

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AAP

Ambo pay dispute could cripple New Year services

A pay dispute between paramedics' unions and the NSW government threatens to cripple ambulance services on their busiest night of the year.

Newcastle Herald

'Stabbed in the back': Paramedics defy Minns government over strike orders

Locked under a wage cap for years, paramedics want a pay boost.

AAP

Paramedics' industrial action ruled out of order

A 12-hour industrial action that would have resulted in some paramedics refusing all but the most serious calls has been ruled out of order amid a pay dispute.

AAP

Paramedics waiting for pay offer call premier to table

Paramedics want senior ministers to emerge "from the shadows" and make a real pay offer as threats of significant industrial action remain.

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The Guardian - AU

NSW government offers 8.5% pay rise to lowest-paid health workers to head off industrial action

Offer comes after the Health Services Union gave the government until Friday to propose a new pay deal

AAP

Health workers' pay offer won't cost taxpayers extra

Aged care workers, hospital staff and allied health professionals in NSW are being offered an extra $67 a week after a public stoush with the state government.

Newcastle Herald

'Really is home': community rallies for Wallsend Aged Care Centre

'People should not be in hospital because they can not get an aged care bed. We have 68 empty beds.'

Newcastle Herald

John Hunter Hospital staff call for 6 per cent wage rise

Labor has been in power for two months now and 'nothing's been done'.

The Guardian - AU

‘Golden opportunity’: NSW Labor under pressure to deliver promised public sector wage rises

Unions urge incoming premier Chris Minns to overhaul working conditions for frontline workers

Newcastle Herald

Hunter ambos in statewide campaign to get new responsibilities and a 30 per cent pay rise

Ambos want more work and 30% pay rise

ABC News

New South Wales union calls for royal commission into health spending 'mismanagement'

Tess Oxley works in western Sydney, where she says patients are calling for an ambulance to get health care because they can't get into a GP — an issue highlighted by new union research into NSW Health funding.

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