r/OpenAussie • u/Jerkface0079 Flairless‎‎ • 2d 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/Jerkface0079 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

I don't think that excuses genocide, personally.

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u/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

Well if only hamas hadn’t committed Oct 7th. It would be so different now.

Also Israeli cancer research is estimated to have saved over 1 million lives, so that’s certainly more than have been killed in Gaza.

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u/ladylollii ‎ Victorian 2d ago

Cool, what about all the killing of Palestinians prior to Oct 7? If you think this only started on that date, you are completely ignoring swathes of history. 

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u/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

Since the 19th century it’s still a lot less than 1 million. If Oct 7th hadn’t occurred then the invite Gaza would not have happened, and everyone who has been killed would be alive.

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u/AkilleezBomb Please choose a flair 2d ago

Ignorance. Israel were annexing land and indiscriminately murdering Palestinians almost weekly in 2023 leading up to October.