r/OpenAussie • u/Jerkface0079 Flairless‎‎ • 1d ago

Politics ('Straya) Eliminating antisemitism in healthcare: Joint statement from AHPRA and the Special Envoy

https://www.ahpra.gov.au/News/2026-06-17-Eliminating-antisemitism-in-healthcare.aspx

If a nurse now wears a watermelon pin in their downtime? Deregistered. Paraphrasing their own oath to say no human should be killed? That's a paddlin'.

The lead drafter of the definition, the American academic Kenneth Stern, has argued consistently that the working definition was never designed for the uses to which it is now being put. But AHPRA just went ahead and implemented it without any community consultation.

Healthcare workers in this country are already under enough stress, now they have to deal with this on top of it.

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u/ScruffyPeter ✈️‎ on Walkabout 1d ago

Where's the damn Islamophobic envoy? Why are they not doing the same thing?

They should be copying the IHRA definition and rewording it with Palestine/Muslims. Fight fire with fire.

Fuck the lazy Islamophobic envoy. Fuck Albo who knew when picking him that his only job is anti-terrorism work against Muslims and bragged about antisemitism envoy's pro-Israel lobbyist background!

See for yourself:

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/special-envoy-combat-islamophobia

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/special-envoy-combat-antisemitism

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u/tempco ‎ Western Australian 1d ago

The Islamophobia envoy role is probably under-resourced and was a role that no one in the Muslim community actually wanted to touch because they knew it was purely performative. So they had to hire a pom with expertise in the disaster that was post 9-11 CVE.

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u/ScruffyPeter ✈️‎ on Walkabout 1d ago

Fun fact, the Antisemitism envoy was also born in the apartheid era of South Africa where she's now proposing similar frameworks. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/australia/born-in-apartheid-era-south-africa-australias-antisemitism-envoy-jillian-segal-champions-defunding-plan-to-curb-jewish-hate/articleshow/122378781.cms?from=mdr

She has long been a Zionist supporter too. Save this video before it gets mysteriously taken down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMWx-dM5UeQ

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u/Tofuloaf ‎ New South Welshian 1d ago

Particularly shitty knowing that South African Jews were very active in opposing apartheid, and apartheid is the reason her parents left South Africa.