Opportune Queensland ads lure resigning NSW psychiatrists interstate

Queensland officials have defended a provocative job-ad blitz to lure New South Wales public-sector psychiatrists across the border as mass resignations trigger a crisis in Australia’s largest health system. Half-page advertisements published in major Sydney newspapers on Friday targeted psychiatrists, saying that “Queensland is calling” and that the state “already pays more” than NSW. The ads appeared as a pay stoush drove around two-thirds of NSW’s public hospital psychiatrists towards resignation, also prompted by what they said were widespread issues in the state’s mental health system. Tim Nicholls, Queensland’s health minister, said the ads were run to attract the key

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