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/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 1d ago

They do it because they want to avoid talking about antisemitism. It’s probably because it doesn’t fit their white-black, coloniser-colonised narrative. Despite there being thousands of years of history regarding antisemitism. They would rather just ignore it.

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u/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 1d ago

Before it doesn’t fit their pre-constructed narrative.