A NSW Rural Fire Service brigade has posted the following on FaceBook:
Whilst ‘moving to the left, slowing down, or stopping’ may be good advice is it not what the law says.
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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...Today’s correspondent says:
I’m in the NSW SES, our local LGA recently experienced a heavy rainfall event (just like other LGA’s) during which sandbags were made available. Our records show that 1 person picked up 2.5 tonnes of bags. My question is, IF the SES overload a car trailer, can we be held liable if the...
The decision in Cox v State of New South Wales trading as Ambulance Service of NSW [2025] NSWSC 1556 was handed down on 17 December 2025 but slipped under my radar. I thank the respondent (ie the person responding to th...
Today’s correspondent works for Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) ‘… with frequent responses into NSW’. They ask ‘how lawful might be a QAS EEA on a NSW patient transported to a NSW facility?’
That’s an interesting question. First let us recall that the power of a Queensland ambulance officer to detain a patient is not found in an EEA, it is found in s 157B of the ...