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Title: Australian Emergency Law – Discussion on the law that applies to or affects Australia's emergency services and emergency management, by Michael Eburn, PhD, Australian Lawyer. Email: [email protected]

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A Queensland paramedic has had his registration suspended after groping a colleague’s ‘breasts with both hands, for approximately five seconds’ (Health Ombudsman v Garrahy [2026] QCAT 58, [15]).  The assault took place during a social function ‘organised by a QAS social club’ ([13]) on 15 July 2023. The victim complained to QAS who suspended Mr Garrahy...


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Today’s correspondent wants to revisit the issue of patient restraint in Western Australia. They start by saying ‘You wrote a post some time ago in reference to court case in WA concerning the non-lawful restraint of a patient by security officers’. Indeed I did, that post was


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Today’s correspondent has a background in work health and safety and is concerned about the use of non-rated or designed equipment in rescues. They say:

I have asked multiple times the legality of how we can teach this but keep getting told that due to it being a rescue we don’t have to worry and the [Work Health and Safety] Act allows using a high-risk piece of pl...


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Since I’m no longer sponsored to run this blog (see This blog is no longer sponsored (September 17, 2025)) I’m going to let this wordpress site ‘downgrade’. From 1 April 2026:

The URL will become

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