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02/09/2026

Tonight, a room in Kingsford fills up with people who wouldn't let it go.

📍 The Juniors, Kingsford — 558A Anzac Parade
📅 Doors 5.30pm, from 6.00pm
🎟️ $20 at the door or online
🚊 L3 light rail to the door

Can't be in the room? It's livestreamed — the link goes up on our socials and at clubgrubbery.com.au before the 6pm start.

Hosted by Graham Hood and John Larter. Proudly sponsored by AMPS.

Australia never got its second opinion. Tonight it gets one.

02/09/2026

The promise was a Royal Commission.

What arrived was an inquiry that couldn't examine the decisions people actually lived through — the mandates, the closures, the rules that decided whether you worked, travelled, or sat with a dying parent. State decisions. Out of scope.

Here's the objection we hear most: it's over, why keep going?

Because it isn't a history exercise. Pandemic preparedness frameworks are being written right now, and they'll be built on whatever conclusions we let stand. Get the review wrong and you don't just misremember the last one — you design the next one on top of the mistake.

That's not a political position. It's a clinical one. You don't improve an outcome you refuse to audit.

Three days out.

📅 Thursday 10 September, from 6.00pm — The Juniors, Kingsford
🎟️ $20 — thejuniors.com.au/product/australia-we-have-a-problem/
Can't get to Sydney? It's livestreamed.

A promise was made. AMPS intends to see it kept.

02/09/2026

You can dismiss one doctor asking questions.

A room full of them is harder.

On 10 September, the room includes a clinical immunologist with an AM, one of the country's best-known neurosurgeons, a professor of oncology, the doctor behind the class action for the vaccine-injured, and a former TGA regulatory consultant.

These aren't people on the edge of medicine. They're people who kept asking after it stopped being comfortable to ask.

AMPS represents doctors and allied health professionals. We've spent years standing with practitioners who raised concerns through proper channels and found themselves under investigation for it. That's why our name is on this event.

Six topics. One night.
▪️ The integrity of the science behind the policy
▪️ Media coverage and censorship
▪️ AHPRA, doctors and the doctor–patient relationship
▪️ The TGA and vaccine safety
▪️ Injury and compensation
▪️ Human rights and informed consent

📅 Thursday 10 September, from 6.00pm
📍 The Juniors, Kingsford

One doctor is easy to dismiss. Bring a room.

Medicine has a word for what happens when the first answer doesn't sit right.A second opinion.Australia never got one.We...
01/09/2026

Medicine has a word for what happens when the first answer doesn't sit right.

A second opinion.

Australia never got one.

We had an inquiry. Its terms of reference excluded the decisions of state governments — the mandates, the border closures, the lockdowns. The most consequential calls of the whole period sat outside the scope of the only review that examined it.

You wouldn't accept that from a specialist. Diagnosis delivered, questions ruled out of scope, file closed.

On Thursday 10 September, AMPS is sponsoring the second opinion.

Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM, clinical immunologist. Professor Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon. Professor Angus Dalgleish, immunologist and medical oncologist. Dr Melissa McCann, who instigated the class action for the vaccine-injured. Dr Phillip Altman, former TGA regulatory consultant. And our own AMPS President, Dr Duncan Syme.

Alongside 25 other doctors, academics, lawyers and parliamentarians.

Six questions on the table: the science behind the policy. Media coverage. AHPRA and the doctor–patient relationship. The TGA and vaccine safety. Injury and compensation. Informed consent.

📍 The Juniors, Kingsford — 558A Anzac Parade, Sydney
📅 Thursday 10 September — doors 5.30pm, from 6.00pm
🎟️ $20 — thejuniors.com.au/product/australia-we-have-a-problem/
🚊 L3 light rail to the door. Allow for peak hour.

Hosted by Graham Hood and John Larter. Livestreamed for anyone who can't be in the room.

Australia asked for a second opinion. On 10 September, it gets one.

Care is moving into the home. The workforce conversation needs to catch up.The ABS projects more than a quarter of Austr...
27/08/2026

Care is moving into the home. The workforce conversation needs to catch up.

The ABS projects more than a quarter of Australians will be 65 or over by 2071. One in 16 will be 85 or older.

Support at Home replaced Home Care Packages in November 2025. NDIS reform is running alongside it. The direction is clear: more care, delivered in people's living rooms rather than in wards.

Here's what that actually means for clinicians.

The care being delivered at home is getting more complex — palliative, post-surgical, hospital-in-the-home. That's not personal care with a clinical badge on it. That's high-acuity nursing and medical work, often solo, often without the team standing behind you.

Providers are calling this an opportunity. It can be. Nursing-led models put clinical judgement where it belongs.

But it only works if the workforce is resourced for it:

🔸 Realistic travel and handover time built into the funding, not absorbed by the clinician
🔸 Genuine clinical escalation pathways when someone deteriorates at home
🔸 Lone-worker safety taken seriously
🔸 Scope matched to support, not to the roster gap

Sector growth is not the same thing as good care. What makes the difference is whether the person walking through that front door has the time, backup and authority to do the job properly.

💬 Working in home care, HITH or community nursing? What's the one thing that would make the work safer or more sustainable? Tell us below — we take this into our advocacy.

🔗 Report via The Australian: https://hubs.la/Q04vv5_z0

New AIHW data: assault is now the second leading cause of injury hospitalisation among Australian healthcare workers, up...
26/08/2026

New AIHW data: assault is now the second leading cause of injury hospitalisation among Australian healthcare workers, up from fourth a decade ago.

Hospitalisations rose from 49 in 2015–16 to 126 in 2024–25. The rate has doubled. For the general population, assault ranks seventh.

These are only the assaults serious enough to require admission. The real figure sits well beyond what any incident register captures — because most of it never gets reported at all.

This is a work health and safety failure, and it belongs on the agenda of every hospital board in the country.

Colleagues: have you reported an incident of aggression or assault in the past twelve months? And did anything change as a result?

If this raises issues for you, support is available: Lifeline 13 11 14 | Drs4Drs 1300 374 377

26/08/2026

BREAKING NEWS: The Coalition have announced they oppose Labor's Bill to shut down the Red Union.

With the Greens already against it, and several crossbench MLCs opposed too, the Government now faces a historic loss on the Bill in the Upper House.

Watch the remarks at a press conference today from Shadow Minister Jade Benham and Red Union Spokesman Edward Schuller.

Join our fight here: https://hubs.la/Q04vkj8S0

Australia has never had a Royal Commission into its pandemic response. It is time it did.What we had instead was the Com...
26/08/2026

Australia has never had a Royal Commission into its pandemic response. It is time it did.

What we had instead was the Commonwealth COVID-19 Response Inquiry, which reported on 25 October 2024 — 900 pages, 26 recommendations, 2,000 submissions. Serious work by serious people.

But its terms of reference expressly precluded it from examining the actions of state and territory governments. And it was not a Royal Commission, so it had none of a Royal Commission's coercive powers: it could not compel a witness, or a document, or an answer.

Consider what that leaves unexamined. Border closures and separated families. Extended lockdowns. Vaccine mandates imposed as a condition of employment on healthcare workers. Hospital visitor restrictions and the deaths that occurred without family present. Aged care. School closures. The suppression of clinical dissent, and the practitioners who lost registration, referrals or careers for raising concerns — decisions overwhelmingly made at state level, and therefore outside the inquiry's reach.

This is not a fringe demand. A Senate committee found an "overwhelming" need for a Royal Commission. So have professors of law, former prime ministers, and retired premiers of both major parties. Peer-reviewed research published this month documents measurable moral injury among healthcare workers subject to mandates — a structurally induced ethical harm, in the authors' words, not a personal failing.

A Royal Commission is not a verdict on anyone. It is the opposite: a process with the power to compel evidence, so that findings rest on documents rather than on assertion — from any direction.

AMPS and NPAA call on the Prime Minister and the Health Minister to establish a Royal Commission into Australia's COVID-19 response, with terms of reference broad enough to include state and territory decisions, mandates, and the treatment of practitioners who raised clinical concerns.

Our members lived this. They are entitled to a process with the power to find out what happened.

💬 If a Royal Commission were called tomorrow, what is the one question you would want it to answer?

What were pregnant women actually told in 2021 — and what were officials saying to each other?On 16 August, Senator Ron ...
26/08/2026

What were pregnant women actually told in 2021 — and what were officials saying to each other?

On 16 August, Senator Ron Johnson released two text messages, both dated 25 January 2021.

Dr John Mascola, then director of the Vaccine Research Center at NIAID, wrote to Dr Anthony Fauci: "I am corrected on pregnancy studies. Initial Studies avoid vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester."

Fauci wrote to CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky: "Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester."

Read those carefully, because precision matters here. What they show is officials discussing why the trials had excluded first-trimester participants — fever, from any cause, is associated with higher first-trimester miscarriage rates — and Fauci raising a theoretical mechanism. That is a hypothesis, and a sound reason for caution in trial design.

The hypothesis was subsequently tested, at scale, and was not borne out. Large cohort and registry studies, including a nationwide cohort of more than 527,000 infants, found no increased risk of miscarriage or of major congenital anomalies after first-trimester mRNA vaccination. We say that plainly, because a professional association that only reports the half of the evidence it likes is no more trustworthy than an institution that does the same.

But the consent question does not disappear just because the outcome was reassuring. Informed consent is not retrospective. It is the right to be told, at the time, what is known, what is unknown, and why.

Pregnant women in 2021 were given confident public messaging. They were largely not told that first-trimester participants had been excluded from the trials, or why. Clinicians who raised that gap were not thanked for it — some were reported, investigated, or told to stay in their lane.

Uncertainty communicated honestly builds trust. Uncertainty managed quietly destroys it — and the damage outlasts the pandemic that caused it.

💬 Colleagues: in 2021, did you feel you had what you needed to properly consent a pregnant patient? What would you want done differently next time?

A medical mandate carries a specific ethical burden: you must be able to show a benefit to third parties that outweighs ...
23/08/2026

A medical mandate carries a specific ethical burden: you must be able to show a benefit to third parties that outweighs the burden imposed on the individual. That is not a fringe position. It is the standard test.

So the question is a serious one. By late 2021, when vaccine mandates were being imposed on healthcare workers, was that test still met?

Dr Vinay Prasad — now a senior FDA official — argues it was not. Reviewing the diary entries released by Senator Rand Paul in July, he says: "Fauci knew by the summer [of 2021] the vaccine doesn't halt transmission … The Biden mandate was clearly unethical … Fauci knew that, and he documented that in his diary … That's not a scientific position. That's manipulating science to achieve a policy goal."

The underlying science on this is not really contested. Vaccines substantially reduced severe illness and death — that was and remains their strongest justification. What they did not do, particularly once Delta arrived, was halt transmission. Public health officials said so publicly at the time.

Which is precisely what makes the mandate question uncomfortable rather than simple. If the third-party benefit was known to be limited, what carried the ethical weight of a condition of employment? Australian nurses and doctors lost income, positions and in some cases careers on that basis.

We note that others read these documents differently, and that reasonable people will disagree about what a diary entry proves. What is not in dispute is that the people subject to those mandates were never given this debate. They were given a deadline.

Peer-reviewed research published this month found that mandates produced measurable moral injury among healthcare workers — a structurally induced ethical harm, not a personal failing.

Accountability here does not mean re-litigating vaccination. It means asking who assessed the ethics of coercing a workforce, on what evidence, and whether that assessment was ever written down.

🔗 Prasad's analysis of the diary: https://hubs.la/Q04tN2bn0

💬 Colleagues: were you mandated, stood down or moved during that period? Were you ever shown the reasoning?

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