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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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Today’s correspondent asks:
Can Paramedics and or Emergency First Responders randomly select and conduct “Phase 0,1,2,3 or 4 Medical Research Clinical trials” on patients (humans) under the Guardianship and Administration Act 1986 Part 4A—Medical and Other Treatment Division 3—Emergency treatment 42A Emergency medical or dental treatment and or under any other Stat...
I have received several questions/comments regarding the status of volunteers with Victoria SES and I have taken the liberty of editing them into this one combined question. For related posts see:
Victoria SES fined...Today’s correspondent asks about enforcing the need for fire breaks in Western Australia. They say:
As a fire manager we find that local governments that are responsible for the enforcing & infringing of Firebreak notices are very reluctant – or believe they actually have no powers to enforce these annual fire break notices under the Bush Fires Act – on Remote ...
Today’s correspondent is
… a Paramedic in regional NSW in an area that has a high workload of mental health. The declared mental health facility for the area regularly has mental health patients being watched by NSW health hospital security guards in the safe assessment rooms.
It has progressively become common for security guards to request ambulance do...
In R v Phillips [2026] NSWDC 278 Judge Bourke sitting as the NSW District Court sentenced the defendant for ‘an offence under s 474.22(1) of the Commonwealth Criminal Code 1995, being an offence involving the transmission, or causing to be transmitted, child abuse material … [and] an offence of possessing child abuse material’ ([1]).
The reason I ...