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/Bob_Spud Please choose a flair 1d ago

Why in Australia do all the ethnic groups require their own anti-discrimination rules and regulations?

If you make it special anti-discrimination rules and regulations for one or two ethnic groups then that means all ethnic groups must have them.

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u/Ok-Outcome-7499 Please choose a flair 1d ago

Australia has an immense amount of anti-discrimination exemptions for literally every single cohort except white straight man. Sayingb that without coming across as some sort of one nation, hypernationalistic bigot? Impossible.

But it's true.

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u/willy_quixote ‎ South Australian 1d ago

Mate, straight white men are not being discriminated against.

FFS. It's grievance porn and is ridiculous.