Nurse to patient ratios in NSW

So, I recently heard that in the state of Victoria, There are 4 patients to every nurse. This ensures that patients get better quality of care and more attention and care towards their medication and treatments.
Because of this better working place, Nurses in NSW are protesting because the nurse to patient are something like, one nurse to 10 patients. I speak from experience as i was a nurse. And it was tough work. I would often imagine what it would be like to have a ratio of 1 to 4 and it would be a dream!
So the nurses union approached the government to begin negotiations to improve NSW hospitals quality of care to patients, and the premier (Kristina Kineally) said she was not going to look into it! How dare she put hundreds of patients health at risk! Then i thought about why she would do this, and it occurred to me.
If the government had to educate and hire more nurses, they would have to pay more wages and tax. They can't do this because the government is trying to get into surplus, and they wont fork out more money whilst they are trying to do this. And in doing so, patients are at risk of being left alone for too long when they need observation. I really feel for the nurses, it is a really hard job at the best of times.
When i was working in a nursing home, both in palliative care and dementia care, on morning shift, the DON (Director of Nursing) said that it should take you 10 minutes to get a patient out of bed (Keeping in mind that some patients are bed ridden and need lifting out of bed) shower them, dress them and get them ready for breakfast. It was virtually impossible to do all this in 10 mins. And the nurses who did do this, would only give them a bed bath with a tub of warm water and a wash cloth. And that would mean that some patients hadn't had a proper shower in up to a week.And most nurses have to do this for around 10 patients in around 2  hours.  I remember leaving work in tears because of how hard the nurses were pushed to this limit everyday. I worked so hard that i had to leave nursing because of a back injury. I loved my job though.
Wee need more nurses in hospitals and nursing homes because the longer we work like this, the more nurses will leave the job cause it is so hard.
Then where will we be?
Thanks a lot Kristina Kineally.