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Placement Poverty

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 5 Apr 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

A Big Hairy News podcast episode covering the fuel crisis, placement poverty, and political debates between key figures, while also promoting a satirical enamel campaign and highlighting a grassroots podcast movement.

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  • Speaking of curmudgeonly, Chris Bishop. So that's a segue. It's called a segue, Paul. Good That's a good one. Nice segue. Hey, there's this new term going around, placement poverty. I hadn't heard it till the last couple of days, especially nurses. There was an interview on Breakfast this morning, I think, not the one we're going to look at in a minute, which is the Bish and Carmel Superloni, but someone from the nurses world who was a student talking about. nurses and some nurses well they're not some student nurses on placement are sleeping in tents close to the hospitals because they can't afford to drive there and back because i don't know how many of you guys have done this i i trained for a little while as a primary school teacher never did it but sometimes you get placement in a school that might be a 20 minute drive away You know, maybe if you're rural, it might be more, it might be the next town over. Who knows? Probably wouldn't work if you're rural because you wouldn't be at Teachers Training College. You get my point. Sometimes there's distance to go on placement and nurses are facing it at the moment and they're talking about placement poverty, people being on placement distances from their homes and their regular support groups are not being able to afford to get there and get back from them. Australia gives...
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