Australian Politics
Thursday, March 21, 2024
African male nurse banned from ICU, critical care, emergency and night shifts
Strange that he is allowed to work as a nurse at all after such severe restrictions. He has clearly behaved very badly in a number of ways so it seems his race is protecting him.
His surname is Rwandan and that place has had a truly savage recent history so it may be that he just does not have the instinctive restraints we normally expect in a nurse
A Queensland nurse has been banned from working in the fields of mental health and acute care or late at night, the health watchdog has announced.
Amon Emmanuel Nteziryayo, from the Cairns suburb of Bentley Park, was slapped with the restrictions by the state’s Office of the Health Ombudsman (OHO) on March 12, according to an announcement posted on their website this week.
The notice, published on an online register of medical workers subject to immediate registration action, does not reveal why the regulator has restricted his ability to work.
He must only practise at locations approved by the ombudsman and must not practise outside the hours of 6am to 10pm.
He must not provide care to any patient where the care being provided is specifically related to their mental health and must not work in intensive care, critical care unit, emergency departments, or psychiatric intensive care units or in a facility where patients require frequent observations.
He must be supervised by another registered health practitioner and he does not currently have the ombudsman’s approval to practise in any employment or practice location.
It states that the decision will continue to have effect until the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal sets the decision aside or the health ombudsman revokes the suspension.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) website states that he was first registered in the profession in this country in October 2016.
He completed a nursing degree at the University of Southern Queensland in 2015.
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A wise man
Homosexuals versus the Bible was no-win. A lot of Christians do vote for the Labor party. He could have lost the lot. Even for people with only a nominal Christian background, prosecuting people for quoting the Bible would have been too much, to say nothing of being starkly intolerant
Anthony Albanese has managed a remarkable feat with his decision this week to shelve a religious freedom law unless he can secure approval from Peter Dutton to give it a smooth passage through the parliament. Everyone feels they have lost, whether they wanted more rights for religious schools or more protection for gay teachers and transgender students.
In one remark, relayed second-hand to journalists from the Labor caucus meeting on Tuesday, the prime minister offended the Greens, equality campaigners, Christian schools and church leaders, who all had different views on how the law should work.
And Dutton was incensed. The opposition leader worked himself into a tirade at a press conference on Tuesday, as if it was an outrage for one side of politics to seek a bipartisan agreement with another. He seemed truly angry that Albanese only wanted to pass a law the Coalition could accept.
The anger seems overdone. Perhaps the real frustration in the opposition is that Albanese will not give it the fight it wants. That’s because there will be no chance for the Liberals to start a culture war about Labor and the Greens joining forces to limit the liberty of religious schools.
In fact, the entire government objective is to avoid a battle. Albanese promised at the last election that he would act on the concerns about religious freedom, but he argues now that Australia does not need a divisive debate on religion when there is so much tension over antisemitism and Islamophobia.
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Sydney King's School headmaster Tony George erupts over 'woke' attacks on top boys' schools - and says his students are being unfairly targeted and ridiculed over high fees
The headmaster of an elite private boys school has hit out at what he calls the 'militant victimhood' of 'wokeness' that targets the 'straw man' of 'white privileged males'.
Tony George, headmaster of The King's School located in north-west Sydney, has lamented that 'sections of government and the press seem intent on deriding independent boys’ schools with any story they can concoct'.
HIs remarks follow the recent expose by ABC program Four Corners of another Sydney private boys school, Cranbrook, which resulted in the resignation of its principal.
Writing in The King's School magazine Leader, Mr George stated 'children attending non-government schools [are] being increasingly targeted and ridiculed' in what he called 'identity abuse' and this was especially true of elite boys' institutions.
'Government single-sex schools have seemed to avoid criticism, as have single-sex girls’ schools,' he wrote.
'However, the underlying agenda against the straw man of white privileged males has fuelled the creation of the term toxic masculinity and the religious fervour it subsequently generates.'
Mr George argued 'the practice of linking toxic behaviour to masculinity is to malign all males, just as linking oppression to the West maligns all western countries as oppressive'.
He argued this 'lambasted' men and boys with the same 'tarred brush of paranoia'.
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EV cost savings not what they seem, says economist
A Commonwealth Bank economist has cast doubts over claims by the Federal Government that electric vehicles will be cheaper to own than conventional petrol vehicles.
In a paper called “New Vehicle Efficiency Standard: Race to the bottom?” economist John Oh compared the MG ZS electric vehicle with the petrol version of the same model and found that, at today’s prices, the EV would cost between 5 and 58 per cent more to own over five years than the petrol version.
He said that while EV buyers would save money on fuel bills and lower maintenance bills, they would eventually be slugged with higher ownership costs due to the weaker resale value of EVs.
But the equation would change if MG were to discount their EVs, using the carbon credits they would earn under the government’s new efficiency standard.
Under the government’s controversial new plan, EV makers will earn credits that can be sold to other manufacturers wanting to offset emissions from their popular thirstier vehicles, such as utes.
Oh estimated that MG could make up to $6500 per car in credits from the proposed scheme, and if the company passed those on in the form of cheaper prices, the ownership costs could be 2 per cent lower than a petrol car, based on a “best-case depreciation scenario” where the EV retained the same value as a petrol car. If EVs depreciated at “historical rates” the EV would still cost 44 per cent more.
“The clear winners of the NVES are car manufacturers that only sell battery electric vehicles. EV buyers can benefit if these manufacturers discount their EVs with the revenue gained by selling credits,” he wrote.
“The lower upfront cost, if credits are passed to customers, would help tilt the dial towards EVs being more economical to own and drive than ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles,” he said.
But it was “unclear” whether EV brands would pass on their credit earnings in discounts. MG, which also sold petrol vehicles, might use their earnings to offset their thirstier vehicles.
Cheaper new EVs also created problems for used EV prices.
“Second-hand EVs have to potentially compete with the price of new cars, which are getting cheaper and there’s expectation that it will get lower,” he said.
Oh also had bad news for buyers of petrol and diesel vehicles, in particular thirsty utes and SUVs.
He warned that car makers who didn’t meet the government’s tough new standards would “likely pass on any penalties to consumers”.
He estimated that roughly three quarters of the top 20 car brands would not meet the 2025 NVES standard.
Isuzu, which only sold utes and 4WD wagons, could face penalties or have to buy credits worth between 6 and 17 per cent of the asking price of its vehicles by 2029.
That figure assumed Isuzu would not improve its vehicle emissions over the next five years.
“There are levers that vehicle manufacturers can pull. They can change the volume, they can change the price and they could also exit the market,” he said.
He said the ute market would pose the biggest short-term challenge to the success of the government plan because “EV uptake is low, low emission vehicles have a large price premium and consumer demand for EVs is untested”.
In the United States, where Ford sold an electric version of the F150, the EV made up just 3 per cent of total sales.
The paper found that EVs offered cheaper operating costs because they required less maintenance and charging was cheaper than filling a car with petrol.
But those benefits were outweighed by the fact they depreciated more quickly and cost more to insure.
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