NPAQ News

Rockhampton Hospital: the Health Service has responded

NPAQ — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:59:11 GMT

What we have done since your survey

Case Win: Overpayment Claim Cut by More Than $9,000

NPAQ — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:41:41 GMT

An overpayment notice is a calculation, and calculations can be wrong.

Atherton and Cairns: Violence, Workload and Beds that Never Free Up

NPAQ — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Two stories ran in the Cairns Post on Thursday, 3 September 2026. Both of them started with you.

Your Right to Vote in EB12 - September Update

NPAQ — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:34:56 GMT

The Queensland Government and QNMU have recently reached a pay agreement. While the QNMU members have accepted this deal, it's important to understand that NPAQ was not permitted to be part of these negotiations due to legislation passed by Labor in 2022.

Letter to QLD premier: Dr Jillian Spencer Must Be Reinstated, Act Now on Transgender Ideology

NPAQ President — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:11:59 GMT

Download the PDF version of the letter here.

Suspension of Dr Jillian Spencer, Clinical Suppression, and the Politicisation of Medicine in Queensland Health

NPAQ — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 23:28:39 GMT

EB12: You Have a Right to Vote. You Will Be Covered. Don’t Believe the Lies.

NPAQ — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 01:07:22 GMT

Nurses and midwives across Queensland Health are being lied to.

Ballot materials are sent to every Qld Health nurse and midwife, regardless of union membership. That's the law. That’s confirmed by Queensland Health itself - see here

CODE BLACKOUT: When Violence Becomes Routine, Silence Is Not an Option

NPAQ — Tue, 27 May 2025 23:47:25 GMT

Queensland hospitals are in crisis — not just from underfunding or overcrowding, but from violence.

Real, escalating, often brutal violence.

In the past year alone, more than 16,000 violent incidents were recorded against healthcare workers in Queensland hospitals. That’s more than 45 assaults every single day — and those are just the ones reported.

The Nurses’ Professional Association of Queensland (NPAQ) is launching Campaign CODE BLACKOUT to expose the systemic failures behind this crisis and demand urgent, structural solutions. This is a campaign built by nurses and midwives, for nurses and midwives. Because silence is complicity — and we refuse to stand by.

A System Failing Its Frontline

Our members are reporting being kicked, stalked, harassed, and bashed — in corridors, in car parks, even just metres from emergency department doors. The most shocking part? Security guards are often told not to intervene.

At Ipswich Hospital, a nurse was assaulted metres from the ED. Two colleagues rushed to help — one broke their wrist. Meanwhile, hospital security stood by and watched.

Tragically, this isn’t an isolated incident. It’s happening across the state — in Cairns, Logan, Caboolture, Redcliffe and beyond. And it’s not just the violence inside hospital walls. It’s the unsafe streets, the car parks without lighting or CCTV, the lack of duress alarms, inadequate parking, and non-existent or unreliable shuttle services.

It is, bluntly, an occupational safety collapse.

Protected Industrial Action / QNMU Strikes Information

NPAQ — Thu, 08 May 2025 06:47:38 GMT

While NPAA and NPAQ also wish to promote the claims and take part in bargaining, they have been prevented from doing so due to amendments to industrial laws by the State Government in November 2022.

“No Say. No Seat. No Way.” – Why Queensland Nurses Vote NO on the EB12 Deal

NPAQ — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:08:30 GMT

The current EB12 proposal from Queensland Health isn’t just a low-ball offer—it’s a breaking point. It challenges the limits of how much nurses can endure before they feel compelled to take action.