AWESOME 4 SOME: Members' brave testimony helps clinch 15% aged care award wage rise.

The article reports that members of Queensland Nurses & Midwives Union (QNMU) such as Dianne Power, Ginny Mashford, and Pat McLean efforts on realities of working in aged care. It mentions Fair Work Commission full bench awarded direct care workers in the aged care sector an interim 15 percent increase to the award rate which is the biggest increase to aged care award wages in decades. It also mentions foregoing dental treatment because it was too expensive.