Secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association Goulburn branch delegate, Larissa Butler, speaking at a nurses rally outside Goulburn Base Hospital in support of a 15 percent pay rise.
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00:00Here today we stand before you and our colleagues who are on the floor still manning the hospital
00:05because without nurses and midwives essentially the hospital does not run.
00:10So I guess we're here to make the community hear us in our own time rally.
00:17What do we want?
00:20When do we want it?
00:22What do we want?
00:25When do we want it?
00:26Pay us properly, pay us fair, recognise how much we care.
00:34Fix the mess, stop our distress.
00:39When nurses and midwives are under attack what do we do?
00:46So our wages is just the beginning.
00:49I don't know about you but I know feeding my family with four children
00:53has become a chore.
00:55It is such a distressing weekly occurrence trying to find how many pasta dishes I can cook
01:01for four children.
01:03That's what 15% means to me.
01:05It doesn't mean that I'm not going to be at work any less.
01:09It means less stress at home.
01:11It means I'm able to provide for my family and that means it's a better work and home life balance.
01:19Who's exhausted?
01:22Because we can't retain nurses they're driving 55 minutes to Canberra.
01:27Why wouldn't you?
01:29So what do we want from this government?
01:33When do we want it?
01:35What do we want?
01:37When do we want it?
01:39Here today we stand before you and our colleagues who are on the floor still manning the hospital
01:44because without nurses and midwives essentially the hospital does not run.
01:50So I guess we're here to make the community hear us in our own time rally.
01:56What do we want?
02:00When do we want it?
02:02What do we want?
02:04When do we want it?
02:06Pay us properly, pay us fair, recognise how much we care.
02:09Pay us properly, pay us fair, recognise how much we care.
02:19When nurses and midwives are under attack what do we do?
02:22We stand up and we fight back.