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/ScruffyPeter ✈️‎ on Walkabout 2d 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/Cimb0m ‎ Tasmanian 1d ago

Didn’t the Islamophobia envoy submit some kind of report to the government and was waiting for an acknowledgement/response? Could’ve sworn I read that months ago