Circular white and red plastic badge. Silver metal, plastic-coated, with safety pin fastener adhered to back. Button printed with the hand-drawn red text 'SAVE OUR HOSPITAL' and an image of a bandaged patient in tears.politics, protest, public protest, hospitals, public institutions, politics, political protest, campaigning, badges, buttons, pins

Fairfield Hospital opened in 1904 as the Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital, the first purpose-built isolation hospital for infectious diseases in Victoria. Its 22-acre site was located on a bank of the Yarra River. It was renamed Fairfield Hospital in 1948. In its later years, the hospital was a centre for AIDS treatment in Victoria, and a passionate campaign fought against its planned closure in the 1990s. Fairfield Hospital finally closed in June 1996. One section of the site was gazetted as a Public Park and Memorial Garden (containing an AIDS Garden).Circular white and red plastic badge. Silver metal, plastic-coated, with safety pin fastener adhered to back. Badge printed with the red text 'SAVE FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL'. Silver metal, plastic-coated, with safety pin fastener adhered to back.medicine, health, public institutions, fairfield, victoria, city of darebin, melbourne, politics, political protest, public protest, campaigning, badges, buttons, pins, public health, infectious diseases, aids

Circular red plastic badge. Silver metal, plastic-coated, with safety pin fastener adhered to back. Badge printed with white text 'Ask me! I'm a Nurse'.nursing, nurses, badges, buttons, pins, advocacy

Campaign material for the Victorian Labor Party ahead of the 2002 Victorian State Election, campaigning for Bronwyn Pike in the seat of Melbourne. Education and health polled as key issues ahead of the election. Labor comfortably won the election, gaining 20 seats, returning Steve Bracks as Premier. Robert Doyle was the opposition leader. Despite a heavy loss and lacking popularity with the Victorian community, Doyle continued as opposition leader following the election.Double-sided square white coaster with blue and red text. Printed on front with Australian Labor Party logo and authorisation, along with the following text: 'BRACKS LABOR healthy meal ♢ more nurses ♢ more teachers ♢ more police ♢ more jobs ♢ more services ♢ decent government Bronwyn Pike MELBOURNE' Printed on rear with blue decorative border and the following text: 'LIBERAL DOYLE-Y ♢ take away schools ♢ take away nurses ♢ take away jobs ♢ take away services ♢ take away democracy'Signed in blue pen by Steve Bracks, the 44th Premier of Victoria (1999-2007). Stained on bottom corner. Printed by BR Printing, 30 Albermarle St, Kensington, Victoria.victoria, election, campaign, education, health, politics, labor party, state politics, 2002 state election, steve bracks, robert doyle, nurses, nursing

This item was found in an ANMF Federal Office archive box. It was taped into a picture frame, broken when found. The note was written on the title page of a book. The title page was separated from the book, and the book was not with the item. We believe the item came to the ANMF Federal office via the ANF Tasmanian Branch. A conference presentation was done in July 2017 about the subject of the note, Nurse Alexander.Original handwritten note by Florence Nightingale, addressed to Nurse Alexander upon her departure from England to work in Tasmania, Australia.Hand written note by Florence Nightingale to Nurse Alexander, upon her departure from England to work as a nurse in Tasmania, written in pencil on the title page of a medical textbook."Offered Nurse Alexander on her going to Tasmania. And may she have the knowledge and humility to be making continued progress. And may she remember that a nurse who is not always advancing is going back. Forward not backward in all ways. Florence Nightingale. Feb 18 1883."nursing, history

Illustrated book. Mid blue cover with large darker blue rectangles on front back and spine. Title and author's name printed in white and yellow on front and spine rectangles. Publishers mark printed in white at base of spine. Back cover has summary of book along with biography and photo of authornon-fictionThis book, covering the period from 1788 to Federation is Volume 1 of the first comprehensive history of nursing in Australia. The author traces the development of traditions and structures that have helped shape the course of nursing and the evolution of a professionnursing-australia-history

Illustrated book. Front cover has a black and white photograph of a nurse in military uniform (Pearl Lottie Trayhurn) main title in red and subsidiary tile in white overprinted on this photo. Author's name printed in black at bottom. Main title printed in red on spine along with authors name and publisher's mark printed in black. The back cover has a photograph of a civilian nurse in uniform (Pearl Lottie Trayhurn, Paramatta Hospital) the back cover also has a summary of the booknon-fictionA history of the Australian nurses who served in the 1914-1918 conflict. Also includes history of nursing in Australia pre federation, the Boer War, and the influenza pandemicmilitary nursing-australia-history, world war 1914-1918-nursing, boer war-nursing, colonial history-australia-nursing, nurses