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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:
Does doing overtime and double shifts etc expose the healthcare professional to no support from their employer and/or professional indemnity protections when errors are made, especially medication errors or critical procedures gone wrong? Does having a vehicle accident due to fatigue or lack of concentration after a long shift potentiall...
Paramedicine Board of Australia v Sallery [2026] WASAT 88 reports on the short career of Mr Sallery.
On 27 January 2021 Mr Sallery was registered as a paramedic ([12]). On 4 May 2021 he began his first job as part of a team providing emergency medical services at a remote West Australian mine site. He was engaged to provide leave coverage for the regular pa...
Today’s correspondent from NSW says:
In the country areas, quite often volunteer firefighters respond to an incident wearing only part of their PPE, usually a jacket and helmet, having just rushed from a farming operation to get on the truck. Recently, a colleague dressed in part PPE fell over on the fireground and was not wearing his gloves and subsequently severe...
I have been asked whether Tasmania police can direct the master of a commercial vessel to respond to an emergency and who will be responsible if something goes wrong. The answer depends on where the boat is at the time of the request.
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In Andrews v Commissioner, Fire and Rescue NSW; Murrell v Commissioner, Fire and Rescue NSW [2026] NSWIRComm 1062 the Industrial Relations Commission heard two cases of alleged unfair dismissal brought by two retained firefighters at the Branxton-Greta Fire station. Both were d...