RPA hospital closes HIV psychiatry clinic with 200 patients after staff resignations

Exclusive: Former staff tell Guardian Australia some HIV patients have since required acute mental health care, as hospital also loses specialist pain and eating disorder support staff

The resignation of psychiatrists from Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred hospital has led to the closure of a HIV psychiatry clinic with 200 patients, as well as a loss of specialist psychiatrist services for patients in the pain clinic and the most unwell eating disorder patients.

#NSW #NSWPol #health #Australia #psychology #psychiatry #MentalHealth #pain #ChronicPain #EatingDisorder

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/02/rpa-hospital-closes-hiv-psychiatry-clinic-with-200-patients-after-staff-resignations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The #NSW #police officer convicted of #manslaughter for fatally tasering 95-year-old #ClareNowland has avoided prison time.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/sentence-for-officer-who-killed-great-grandmother-by-taser-is-manifestly-inadequate/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/54415

Thousands of sensitive NSW court records have been exposed in a data breach affecting the Australian state. Stay informed on this developing story.

#SecurityLand #CyberWatch #CyberSecurity #NSW #Australia #DataBreach

https://www.security.land/thousands-of-sensitive-nsw-court-documents-exposed-in-major-data-breach/

Central Coast Health is advising people to be alert for signs and symptoms of measles after being notified of three cases who were infectious while visiting several locations in the Central Coast, #Newcastle and Lake Macquarie areas.

One of the cases, who is unvaccinated, recently returned from Vietnam, where there is an ongoing large-scale outbreak of measles. The cases are known to each other.

People who attended the following locations at the specified times should watch for the development of symptoms.

Go Vita Lake Haven shopping centre
Sunday 2 March 2025, 11am – 2pm
Sunday 16 March 2025, 10am – 4pm

LAKE MACQUARIE:
Charlestown soccer ground
Saturday 1 March 2025, 2pm – 5pm

Belmont Hospital Emergency Department
Monday 10 March 2025, 10.30am – 8:30pm
Sunday 23 March 2025, 11am – 6pm

Go Vita Mount Hutton shopping centre
Monday 17 March 2025, 11am – 5pm

Anyone who visited the above locations at those times should monitor for symptoms.

“It can take up to 21 days for symptoms to appear after an exposure, so it’s important for people who visited these locations to look out for symptoms until the dates indicated.

“If you develop symptoms, please call ahead to your GP or emergency department to ensure you do not spend time in the waiting room with other patients.

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Pages/Measles_Factsheet.aspx

#wildlife #nature

#photo #photography #australia
#potd #photooftheday #alttext #bat #wildlifephotography #nsw #bats #BlackAndWhite #flyingfox #blackandwhitephotography

Lifeless rock pools at Sawtell

After cyclone Alfred whipped up a 'bacteria smoothy' along Australia's east coast the sea foam then merged with a 'flush' from the suburbs. Dislodged smelly sponges at Sawtell beach made breathing and contact impossible. Even without fossil fueled disasters the intertidal zone at the north end of the beach is barren. The rock pools and crevices no longer house sea anemones, crabs, black nerites, limpets, sea stars, mulberry oyster borers, algae, sea anemones, sponges, tube worms, sea stars, oysters, and fish.

Still good enough for hosting 'sports' and advertising events amplified by megaphone so they can be heard at Lord Howe Island too.

Abusing beaches as highways

"Overcrowding due to a surge in visitors at some of Queensland's pristine beaches has raised safety and environmental concerns. Reports of offences including reckless driving, littering and even defecating have increased at 4WD beaches in recent years amid a domestic tourism boom."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/calls-for-major-change-at-popular-4wd-beaches-and-campgrounds-as-popularity-soars-224716506.html
#beaches #dunes #traffic #cars #vehicles #SUVs #4WDs #Biodiversity #wildlife #Invertebrates #birds #shorebirds #MigratoryBirds #turtles #NSW #Queensland #Australia #regulation #climate #tourism #FossilFuel #recreation #overtourism

Abusing beaches as highways

"Overcrowding due to a surge in visitors at some of Queensland's pristine beaches has raised safety and environmental concerns.Reports of offences including reckless driving, littering and even defecating have increased at 4WD beaches in recent years amid a domestic tourism boom."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/calls-for-major-change-at-popular-4wd-beaches-and-campgrounds-as-popularity-soars-224716506.html
#beaches #dunes #traffic #cars #vehicles #SUVs #4WDs #Biodiversity #wildlife #Invertebrates #birds #shorebirds #MigratoryBirds #turtles #NSW #Queensland #Australia #regulation #climate #tourism

Traffic on beaches
It's the Wild West - turning beach ecology into a Woolies car park

Off-road vehicles are allowed to cause "serious ecological harm" to beaches, dunes and estuaries ecosystems. Vehicles traffic is causing "unequivocal serious and widespread damage" to coastal dune ecosystems. "All of the species had suffered negative effects caused by off-road vehicles. The four-by-fours running over them basically crush them to death."

"Professor Schlacher said the Noosa North Shore, Rainbow Beach, K'gari and Bribie Island were among the car-accessible beaches that were being "pummelled to death"". On Bribie Island "there can be 1,200 vehicles on the beach in one day, and that's ridiculous. It's just like a Woolies car park."

Ban 4WDs from beaches >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-24/call-for-four-wheel-drive-ban-aussie-beaches/104990150
#NationalParks #beaches #dunes #traffic #cars #vehicles #SUVs #4WDs #Biodiversity #wildlife #Invertebrates #birds #shorebirds #MigratoryBirds #turtles #NSW #Queensland #Australia #regulation #climate

#NSW has refused to repeal antisemitism-specific offences, despite the #fact they were passed over a fabricated “antisemitic” crimewave.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-government-refuses-to-repeal-hoax-based-antisemitism-laws/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/53877

Careless drivers III
Speeding vehicles demolish roundabouts. They are just razed to the ground.
#cars #roads #speeding #drivers #NSW #infrastructure #roundabouts #destruction

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred sparks call to cyclone-proof homes as far south as northern NSW

"The research is really clear that cyclones and severe weather events are coming south along the Queensland and Australian coastline, and that our severe weather events will become more severe... Professor Steve Turton, a climate change expert with Central Queensland University, said homes and buildings outside traditional cyclone zones should now be subject to cyclone ratings, including in south-east Queensland and even northern New South Wales. I would suggest it needs to go down to at least Coffs Harbour." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-23/ex-tropical-cyclone-alfred-weather-preparation-storm-resilience/105074460
#FossilFuels #plasterboard #housing #cyclone #climate #infrastructure #NSW #storms #floods #disaster #CoffsHarbour #MidNorthCoast

#factcheck -

#NSW #abortion bill would not force shutdown of all #Christian #hospitals

https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nsw-abortion-bill-would-not-force-shutdown-of-all-christian-hospitals/
#australia

Little penguins trapped in rubbish and starving

"The penguin likely starved to death because it couldn’t break free."

"March has been a bad month for Victoria's little penguins, with large numbers discovered dead on beaches in and around Warrnambool and west of Phillip Island. Those deaths have been linked to rising sea temperatures and overfishing of the penguin's natural prey."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-asked-to-think-twice-after-devastating-find-in-25kg-of-rubbish-collected-at-new-pier-011501039.html
#birds #penguins #rubbish #entanglement #starvation #plastic #packaging #overfishing #NSW #wildlife