NSW: Summit on violence against nurses needed union

AAP General News (Australia)
01-21-2001
NSW: Summit on violence against nurses needed union

SYDNEY, Jan 21 AAP - Violence against nurses in remote communities needed to be addressed
at a summit of Aboriginal, nursing and government leaders, the national nursing union
said today.

Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) federal secretary Jill Iliffe said the union was
aware of six serious attacks on nurses working in remote Northern Territory communities
since November last year.

"It is time all governments, including the Northern Territory government, started taking
the issue a lot more seriously and cooperated with the ANF and leaders …