2026 Australian Nurses and Midwives Conference
5 and 6 May 2026
Join nurses and midwives from across Australia at the 2026 Australian Nurses and Midwives Conference, bringing together extraordinary presenters across nursing, midwifery, mental health nursing and more.
Create your individual conference program with concurrent and keynote sessions across nursing, midwifery, public health, mental health, digital health and more.
Keynote presentations include:
- Dr Jorian Kippax, Emergency and Hyperbaric Medicine Specialist on the story of the Franklin River Rescue;
- Jim Rogers, co-host of Dementia Australia’s Hold the Moment podcast on life after receiving a dementia diagnosis;
- Giridharan Sivaraman, Race Discrimination Commissioner on standing together against racism in healthcare;
- Professor Cath Chamberlain, Chief Midwifery Officer – CATSINaM on recreating safe and sacred maternity care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents; and
- An extensive panel covering the coroner’s process.
Create your individual conference program with concurrent sessions across nursing, midwifery, public health, mental health, digital health and more.
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Event details
Date: Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 May (register for a single day or for both!)
Location: Grand Hyatt Melbourne, 123 Collins St, Melbourne
Format: face-to-face event
Don't forget! Conference registration can be tax deductible. Please contact your financial advisor.
TICKETS (Early bird savings available until 11.59pm Sunday 5 April)
ANMF Job Rep/HSR
Early bird one day $200 | two days $330
Regular one day $250 | two days $410 (post early bird costs)
ANMF member
Early bird one day $240 | two days $375
Regular one day $290 | two days $455 (post early bird costs)
Non-member
Early bird one day $400 | two days $630
Regular one day $450 | two days $710 (post early bird costs)
ANMF student member
Early bird one day $80 | two days $120
Regular one day $130 | two days $195 (post early bird costs)
Invoices and group registration options
Interested in paying via invoice or registering 5 or more colleagues (at a reduced rate!) for this event?
Contact the ANMF events team for more information or to request an invoice via events@anmfvic.asn.au
When requesting an invoice, please ensure you provide your ticket type and all details of who this invoice should be made out to.
ANMF (Vic Branch) events refund policy:
By registering for this conference, you are agreeing to the ANMF (Vic Branch) refund policy:
(a) 10% administrative fee levied on all participants who cancel
(b) 14 days or more notification - full refund (i.e. 90%)
(c) seven days or more notification - 70% refund
(d) less than seven days notification - 25% refund
Refunds must be requested directly via the ANMF events team.
Thank you to our sponsors!
We could not run our events without the support of our conference sponsors and thank them for their involvement:
Bronze sponsor - Nurses Midwives Health
Catering:
Yes, this conference is catered. Please ensure you confirm your dietary requirement/s during the registration process so we can endeavour as much as reasonably practicable to cater for the requirement.
Getting to the venue
The ANMF encourages the use of public transport.
Train
Grand Hyatt Melbourne is 0.5km away from Flinders Street Station and 2KM away from Southern Cross Station.
p>TramThis venue is accessible via multiple tram routes:
- Collins Street: Tram routes 11, 12, 48, 109
- Flinders Street: Tram routes 70 and 75
- Swanston Street: Tram routes 1, 3, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67, 72
- Bourke Street: Tram routes 86 and 96
For further train timetable information and trip planning, visit PTV’s journey planner at www.ptv.vic.gov.au.
Parking
Some parking is available at the venue. Information on parking (and transportation) can be found on the Grand Hyatt website here.
To locate other parking locations in the vicinity of the conference venue, please visit Wilson Parking's location map here.
Disclaimer: ANMF (Vic Branch) will endeavour to ensure that the speakers and content for this conference proceed as advertised. However, we may have to replace a speaker unexpectedly. ANMF (Vic Branch) disclaims any liability for any errors/omissions in information provided at this conference.
Questions about this event? Contact the ANMF (Vic Branch) Events department via events@anmfvic.asn.au.