Victorian Ambulance Union

09/06/2026

THANK A FIRST RESPONDER DAY

Today is Thank a First Responder Day. In Victoria our ambulance first responders include Community Emergency Response Teams, Ambulance Community Officers, Patient Transport Ambos, Paramedics and MICA Paramedics, Air Ambulance, as well as Ambulance Call-Takers and Dispatchers. Together they work alongside our Police, Fire, State Emergency Services, Marine Rescue and LifeSaving colleagues to keep Victorians Safe. We thank them all for their important work across every part of Victoria!

06/06/2026

This week the VAU were out at hospitals talking to Paramedics about occupational violence, Clinic Transport Officers about safety information sharing, NEPT members about enterprise bargaining and we signed up new ambulance call-takers at Triple Zero Victoria and Ambulance Community Officers at Mirboo North.

Union strong!!!

05/06/2026

Important membership update for Triage Practitioners. Please refer to the latest VAU bulletin.

05/06/2026

CPD and online Webinars

VAU members have access to the best paramedic CPD content in Australasia. The latest upcoming interactive webinar will be held on Tuesday 30 June, 1800-1900. It is open to all Paramedic, NEPT, TZV and ACO VAU members.

Presented by an expert in emergency law, Dr Michael Eburn, this webinar explores the authorisation landscape and the structures that underpin how paramedics are permitted to carry and administer scheduled drugs in Australia.

But you MUST be a VAU member to access this member benefit. Head to https://vau.org.au/ to join TODAY!

02/06/2026

Important update for National Patient Transport members.

27/05/2026

The ambulance industry has some of the highest rates of workplace injury.

Ambulance workers regularly have to battle to have a safe workplace, to have workcover claims accepted when they are injured, or to get an appropriate return to work plan.

But if you are a union member, you dont have to deal with it alone.

18/05/2026

Another system failure that leads to paramedics and patient transport ambos being exposed to occupational violence.

Vital information sharing is a must in preventing assaults on ambulance workers.

“Not welcome lists” are leaving unwitting paramedics unloading violent or aggressive patients at hospital emergency departments for care, only to be turned away.

14/05/2026

Paramedics Elena and Maddie speaking about the impact of being assaulted on the job while pregnant.

Violence, aggression, threats and abuse towards ambos is never ok.

We can't save your life while we are fearing for our own.

13/05/2026

Assaults on paramedics.

We can’t save your life while we are fearing for our own!

13/05/2026