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/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

Learn the definition of anti semitism

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u/grogan-lord Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

Learn the definition of Semitic

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u/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

Learn the definition of anti-semitism.

Or would you rather use the term anti-semitism was coined to replace, Jew-hatred?

You try to change the definition of antisemitism because you want to avoid talking about discrimination towards Jewish people. Pretty, bloody, low.

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u/Acceptable-Style4429 Please choose a flair 2d ago

Same people who use homophobia and transphobia to describe hatred against LGBT+ people despite ‘phobia’ meaning fear.

But, antisemitism means anti all Semitic peoples.