EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
Doctors across NSW have today started day one of their three day strike, in the hopes to win improvement with their working conditions, and pay rises like the state’s police, public servants, paramedics and teachers in the past 18 months.
Despite living in the most expensive city in Australia, doctors located in New South Wales are paid up to 30% less than doctors in Queensland and Victoria, resulting in more and more healthcare workers leaving the big apple for the Sunshine State.
According to the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation (ASMOF), this dwindling of staff has resulted in more doctors working excessively long hours with limited breaks.
Hundreds of doctors could be seen chanting ‘safe conditions, safe care’ outside the front of Westmead Hospital this morning, though many bystanders were left a little confused as all the handwritten picket signs were impossible to read.
Though today’s protests haven’t resulted in much media, given nobody understood what they were protesting about, The Advocate can confirm that tomorrow’s picket signs will be printed instead.
More to come.
