Partners & families
Support and money rules for your partner and children.
Support your family can use through your job, help for a partner moving rural and the money rules for couples, from checked sources. We say where we can keep a document, track a date or introduce a service.
- Support that covers your family
- Help for a partner moving rural
- Money rules for couples
Support that covers your family
Pick your work and state to see the support your family can use through your job, as each service publishes it.
Fill in your details above to see your result.
As each service publishes it, September 2026. We introduce a health fund only if you ask, and tell you first if we are paid.
What it is
Moving for a healthcare job moves your whole family. A partner, children and a new baby each have their own rules. They cover what a partner’s visa allows, the support your job extends to your family, which health funds your family can join and what a baby born here is entitled to.
What to know
What we do
- Show the support your family can use through your job, by state and profession
- Introduce a health fund if you ask, and tell you first if we are paid
What we don’t
- Choose a health fund for you
Money for couples
Leave, super and payments for couples and parents.
Some rules apply only to couples and parents: paying into a partner’s super, sharing contributions, and the parental leave and flexible work in your agreement.
Super for couples
Couples
- Paying up to $3,000 into a partner’s super can earn you a tax offset of up to $540. You get it in full if their income is $37,000 or less, and none from $40,000.
- You can move up to 85% of a year’s concessional contributions into a partner’s super, if they are under their preservation age, or under 65 and not retired.
Source: ATO; Services Australia.
Parental leave and flexible work
From your agreement and the Fair Work Act
- NSW public sector, NSW Health included: 14 weeks paid for each parent, and 2 more each if both take at least 12.
- Victorian public nurses and midwives: 14 weeks paid for the primary carer and 2 for the other parent, from the first day of work.
- Queensland Health nurses and midwives: 14 weeks paid, or 28 at half pay.
- A parent of a child of school age or younger can ask for flexible work. The employer answers in writing within 21 days, and can refuse only on reasonable business grounds.
- Full-time staff get 10 days of paid sick and carer’s leave a year. Everyone, casuals included, gets 2 days of unpaid carer’s leave.
Source: NSW Government; ANMF Victorian Branch, June 2025; Queensland Health; Fair Work Ombudsman.