Today's installment of "Defund, Destabilise, Privatise": 140 Nurse Practitioner candidates left hanging for months.

Money for taxcuts: Instantaneous and Plentiful ($16 Billion). Funding for a rural mental health nurse practitioner who will treat literally tens of thousands of patients in their career? Sorry, no $.

I've got to say something because I don't see the media picking up on this, and I think there’s a compelling public interest in people knowing, despite a government that repeatedly utters: ‘no hiring freeze, no frontline cuts, no impact on clincial services, we’re overstaffed with nurses, bloated and in need of cuts’ and other figments of their profit-f…