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NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, ACT, Northern Territory Contacts QLD Branch President: Bruce Teakle
Email: bdteakle@ine.com.au
Qld Branch
Lindsay Rd
Mt Glorious QLD 4520
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NEWS REALEASE October 3 2005
BRIDGING THE GAP: CITY AND BUSH PUSH FOR BETTER BIRTHS
In a unprecedented show of universal support for better maternity services, mums (and dads), rural groups, midwives, nurses and doctors will join 'Bridging the gap' walks across Queensland today to show the Queensland Government the need to improve maternity care. see the full release here
- MEDIA RELEASE October 3 2005
BRIDGING THE GAP: CITY AND BUSH PUSH FOR BETTER BIRTHS
Today 188* women and babies across the state will join the 'Bridging the Gap' rallies in Brisbane, Townsville, Mareeba and Stanthorpe to symbolise the number of babies born on the roadside last year in Queensland. The women and babies will walk to 'bridge the gap' between the needs of women in rural, remote and Indigenous communities compared to their city cousins, and to bridge the gap between what families and women want from their birth care providers and what they currently receive. Thirty-six of Queensland's 84 public birthing facilities have closed in the past 10 years. see the full release here
- NEWS RELEASE - Wednesday 18 May 2005
Queensland mums and babies are winners in maternity review, says Maternity Coalition
Recommendations from Rebirthing: Report of the Review of Maternity Services in Queensland, released today, signal an historic shift in maternity care policy.
President of Maternity Coalition Queensland branch, Bruce Teakle, said, “This report puts women and their families firmly at the centre of their birth care services, and provides a strong and realistic framework for reform. see the full release here...
- MC QLD Submission to the Queensland Review of Maternity Services, November 2004 (PDF)
- NEWS RELEASE - Thursday 9 September 2004
Women Queuing for Midwifery Care: Abbott refuses to listen to women
Safe Maternity Care is an election Issue: Marginals Told
"Forget the Safety Net, women feel safer with their own midwife," was the message to Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott, Liberal candidate Ingrid Tall, and sitting member Arch Bevis today from a coalition of maternity care consumer groups representing mothers in the electorate of Brisbane. See the full release here...
- NEWS RELEASE - Monday July 12 2004
Birthing Services Review Welcomed by Consumers
Australia's peak maternity care consumer group, Maternity Coalition, welcomed today's announcement of a review of Queensland's maternity services. "Queensland's mothers have been pushing for this review for a long time" said Maternity Coalition state president Bruce Teakle. See the full release here...
- NEWS RELEASE - Thursday 29 April 2004
Mothers ask for more choices in birth care
On Saturday, May 1, thousands of tiny baby clothes will be hung on clothes lines in King George Square to highlight the lack of publicly funded midwife care for women in Brisbane, and throughout Australia. The event, organized by the Friends of the Birth Centre, kicks off a week of action around the country, to emphasize the inequality and limited choices women face when it comes to maternity services. See the full release here...
- Report on the NMAP launch in Queensland
- Home Midwifery Association (Qld)
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