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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 question relates to the position taken by the Fire Brigades Employee’s Union (the FBEU) to requests to assist NSW Ambulance to load a patient. The FBEU took the view that ‘ambulance assist’ calls were rescue calls and so the ambulance service should activate relevant rescue arrangements and have police call out the local accredited rescue unit. In some cases that woul...


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Thank you to Oscar who in a comment on my post Authority for NSW first aiders to carry methoxyflurane (July 11, 2026) drew my attention to the fact that the 


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Today’s correspondent is

… a small sole trader business in NSW that provides event medics and Paramedics and a recent discussion was held about changes to who can carry and administer methoxyflurane for the purposes of management pain in patients we are paid to be there for.

I was researching today and found the link for the Authority for First Aiders in ...


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Readers of this blog are reminded that courts and tribunals in the Australian legal system do not exercise some broad power to investigate matters and do what they think is just or right. The court sits as a referee to adjudicate the issues that the parties bring before them, and only those issues.

This was an issue in


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The heading, above, is my summary of the decision in Maritime and Coastguard Agency v Groom [2026] EWCA Civ 6.  This is an English case (EWCA stands for England and Wales Court of Appeal) but the reasoning may be of interest.

Mr Groom was a Coastguard Rescue Officer (CRO). His relationship with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (the MCA...


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