Bulletin 11 - Further improved offer - issued 21 August 2026

Following a series of constructive discussions with the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation (NT) (ASMOF), and based on your consideration on my previous offer, I have agreed to make a further improved ‘without prejudice’ offer to replace the Medical Officers’ Northern Territory Public Sector 2022 – 2025 Enterprise Agreement, which nominally expired on 31 December 2025.

I now consider this to be an acceptable offer to put to a vote of Medical Officers. In addition to the increased salaries and allowances previously offered, these further improvements represent significant movement and/or agreement toward ASMOF's claims.

They are being offered in a genuine attempt to settle these negotiations and to provide pay increases and new conditions as soon as possible to Medical Officers, and include the following:

1. Supporting Living Organ Donor Leave
   Improved to provide the Commissioner may approve a full recredit of a period of organ donor leave taken by a Medical Officer.
2. Parental Leave
   Improved to provide the Commissioner may approve a period of paid parental leave where a Medical Officer’s access to the entitlement may be restricted under the Agreement.
3. Equity and Inclusion
   Disability and Diversity clause title changed to Equity and Inclusion.
4. Commitment to Terms of Reference and Reviews
   New clause in the agreement to establish joint working groups to review allowances and conditions in relation to:
   • Medical Officers working in correctional facilities; and
   • Rural Generalists and Rural Medical Practitioners who transition into management positions.

   A working group will also establish the implementation of a single, unified rostering practice across the Department to improve roster management and support employee wellbeing, fatigue management, and work-life balance. Once implemented consideration of financial penalties for rostering breaches may be established through a Commissioner’s Determination.

   A new ‘Medical Officer Joint Consultative Committee’ (MOJCC) will also be established which will include ASMOF representation, to consider rostering compliance concerns or ambiguous agreement provisions.

5. Senior Registrar (SREG) Clarification
   The SREG classification definitions will be clarified to make it clear that a part-time Medical Officer will be able to progress to SREG1 and SREG2 classifications, based on their ‘Full-Time Equivalent’ (FTE) hours. For example, for the purposes of Medical Officer who is within 2 years of full time service from completing their specialist program, and is 0.5 FTE, they may be progressed to SREG1 within 4 part time years of completing their training.

These improvements are in addition to the headline salary increases of 2.7% (from 12 March 2026), 2.7%, 3% and 3% (total of 11.4%, or a total compounded increase of 11.9%) over the four years, and implementing the simplified salary spine (providing transitional increases of up to 14.7%), and the other improvements outlined in my previous offer.

I consider this to be a very reasonable and acceptable offer that positions our Medical Officers well nationally and responds to many of ASMOFs claims, which will deliver competitive wages and solid employment conditions over the next four years.

Read the full details of the further improved offer PDF (1.0 MB).

Next steps

On 24 August 2026 you will be sent information regarding the proposed Medical Officers NTPS 2026 – 2030 Enterprise Agreement, including a link to the proposed agreement and an explanatory document highlighting the changes compared to your current agreement.

Hard copies of these documents will also be available throughout your workplace. This will provide you the opportunity to understand the offer and see what changes are proposed.

The ballot process will be conducted by Vero Engagement and Voting Solutions Pty Ltd (Vero), and you will be sent an e-mail by Vero on 1 September 2026 which will provide your unique login credentials and details about how to cast your confidential vote.

Ballot timeline

The ballot timeline is as follows:

The ballot count will be conducted at the Vero Voting office in 5/100 Railway Road, Subiaco WA 6008. I will then advise employees of the ballot result via a bulletin and a notice on the enterprise bargaining webpage.

More information

Regular updates in relation to the bargaining process will be posted to the OCPE webpage Medical Officers (NTPS) Enterprise Agreement.

Nicole Hurwood
Commissioner for Public Employment
21 August 2026