fyi it's largely not about pay. It's about working conditions. From my sister (a 4th year(?) doctor in NSW)

I do a double shift at least once a week, often on a weekend in addition to working 5 days during the week. It's not about money it's about staffing and adequate leave/rest

Not to mention Vic and Qld get 5 weeks annual leave where we get 4 and also 5 weeks study leave to begin with where we have to accrue it over years

I'm sure the pay is part of it. It nearly always is. But it's not the primary issue.

As for endangering patients...the truth is that that argument is just a lie. The strike action is working to a public holiday schedule. So emergency medicine is not being affected. Only elective procedures. If the 5 public holidays in the next two and a half weeks aren't endangering patients, then neither is this strike.