Queensland Health Offers $147,000 Part-Time Role for Midwife to Oversee Abortions

The move is part of the Queensland state government’s push to expand abortion services.

An ultrasound of a fetus, approximately five months after conception, taken in February 2001. Didier Pallages/AFP via Getty Images

A month after the state Labor government declared it was relaxing laws to allow nurses and midwives to provide abortion services, the government is also advertising for part-time “midwifery navigators” to oversee terminations in regional Queensland.

The part-time role, advertised by Queensland Health via jobs website Seek, offers remuneration of up to $147,790 (US$99,000) per year and a $20,000 relocation payment for a midwifery navigator to oversee pregnancy terminations in Bundaberg and Hervey Bay in the state’s Wide Bay region.