john hedditch

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[john hedditch @john_hedditch]

@MayneReport @KosSamaras Mad as hatters!!

[john hedditch @john_hedditch]

@MayneReport He should be sorting out Aus media policy mess in the national interest as ex-pat Murdoch’s only interests are power and profits.

[john hedditch @john_hedditch]

@FairAusADV @SenatorHume Spot on @SenatorHume at least someone in the antiquated, fossilised and out of touch LNP gets it.
No LNP pathway to power unless climate change policy is now properly developed and past decisions put behind. A price put back on carbon and Net Zero fast tracked.

[john hedditch @john_hedditch]

@jstewartrr @inglis_sales Team Corstens / Malua are terrific team with a great culture and a string of Group 1 colts and fillies / mares.

[MelbourneOnTransit @MelbOnTransit]

As people are talking about Melbourne Airport buses, here's one concept. Centrepiece is new frequent 500 from Sunshine. There's also a new 499 providing currently missing east-west connectivity from Caroline Springs. More here: https://t.co/Dy50aUDzfn #springst

[john hedditch @john_hedditch]

@JaneCaro @n720ute Forever unless some change shapers start seriously rocking the inequity boat

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

WHO leads very high-risk joint humanitarian mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza

Earlier today, a joint UN humanitarian assessment team, led by WHO, accessed Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to assess the situation on the ground, conduct a rapid situational analysis, assess medical priorities, and establish logistics options for further missions. The team included public health experts, logistics officers, and security staff from @UNOCHA, @UNDSS, @UNMAS /@UNOPS, @UNRWA and WHO.

The mission was deconflicted with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to ensure safe passage along the agreed route. However, this was a high-risk operation in an active conflict zone, with heavy fighting ongoing in close proximity to the hospital.

Earlier in the day, the IDF had issued evacuation orders to the remaining 2,500 internally displaced people who had been seeking refuge on the hospital grounds. They, along with a number of mobile patients and hospital staff, had already vacated the facility by the time of the team's arrival.

Due to time limits associated with the security situation, the team was able to spend only one hour inside the hospital, which they described as a “death zone" and the situation as “desperate.” Signs of shelling and gunfire were evident. The team saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and was told more than 80 people were buried there.

Lack of clean water, fuel, medicines, food and other essential aid over the last six weeks have caused Al-Shifa Hospital—once the largest, most advanced, and best equipped referral hospital in Gaza—to essentially stop functioning as a medical facility. The team observed that, due to the security situation, it has been impossible for the staff to carry out effective waste management in the hospital.

Corridors and the hospital grounds were filled with medical and solid waste, increasing the risk of infection. Patients and health staff with whom they spoke were terrified for their safety and health and pleaded for evacuation. Al-Shifa Hospital can no longer admit patients, with the injured and sick now being directed to the seriously overwhelmed and barely functioning Indonesian Hospital.

There are 25 health workers and 291 patients remaining in Al-Shifa, with several patient deaths having occurred over the previous 2 to 3 days due to the shutting down of medical services. Patients include 32 babies in extremely critical condition, two people in intensive care without ventilation, and 22 dialysis patients whose access to life-saving treatment has been severely compromised.

The vast majority of patients are victims of war trauma, including many with complex fractures and amputations, head injuries, burns, chest and abdominal trauma, and 29 patients with serious spinal injuries who are unable to move without medical assistance. Many trauma patients have severely infected wounds due to lack of infection control measures in the hospital and unavailability of antibiotics.

Given the current state of the hospital, which is no longer operational or admitting new patients, the team was requested to evacuate health workers and patients to other facilities. WHO and partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families.

Over the next 24–72 hours, pending guarantees of safe passage by parties to the conflict, additional missions are being arranged to urgently transport patients from Al-Shifa to Nasser Medical Complex and European Gaza Hospital in the south of Gaza. However, these hospitals are already working beyond capacity, and new referrals from Al-Shifa Hospital will further strain overburdened health staff and resources.

WHO is deeply concerned about the safety and health needs of patients, health workers and internally displaced people sheltering at the few remaining partially functional hospitals in the north, which are facing the risk of closure due to a lack of fuel, water, medical supplies, food, and the intense hostilities. Immediate efforts must be made to restore the functionality of Al-Shifa and all other hospitals to provide urgently needed health care services in Gaza.

WHO reiterates its plea for collective efforts to bring an end to the hostilities and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. We call for an immediate ceasefire, the sustained flow of humanitarian assistance at scale, unhindered humanitarian access to all of those in need, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the cessation of attacks on health care and other vital infrastructure.

The extreme suffering of the people of Gaza demands that we respond immediately and concretely with humanity and compassion.

[john hedditch @john_hedditch]

@KosSamaras The Libs haven’t got a Jim Chalmers to do the work needed to do the economic / budget strategy to implement such a big shift for the “elites”

[Stephen Mayne @MayneReport]

Memo to Australian News Corp shareholders, you need to email the company by no later than 5pm on November 10 to request a “control number” that the company will issue you if you want to participate in the fully virtual November 15 AGM. Most companies automatically grant access.

[Stephen Mayne @MayneReport]

In Australia, it is illegal to attempt to limit individual public company shareholders to just 2 questions for an entire AGM. But that is what the Murdochs are doing at their November 15 fully virtual News Corp AGM. Total hypocrites these so called free speech campaigners.

[Greg Withers @GregWithers3]

@KosSamaras All the economic indicators are masks for inequality. They are aggregate measures that hide the concentration of wealth income spending and investment.

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

Shameful Tassie’s Single-Rider. "Just days ago this wonder of nature, centuries old but still unimaginable strong and youthful, was alive and a natural wonder. Today the tree’s death is a national disgrace," Bob Brown #politas #auspol

https://t.co/mcfDMoJDBG

[Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social @markgkenny]

Let’s call this dismal descent for what it is. The shrill and contradictory politics of personal ambition. @canberratimes @ANUausi

[john hedditch @john_hedditch]

@SkyNewsAust Sky Slews Australia - the voice of Murdocracy

[john hedditch @john_hedditch]

@stephenjduckett Surely some heads must roll at the top of Health. The political behaviour should have been exposed at the time and corrective action taken.,

[Louise Milligan @Milliganreports]

We @4corners made repeated attempts, through corporate comms professionals/lawyers, over weeks, to engage with all institutions in Hiding Behind Tombstones. Not one agreed to interview. @ScoutsNSW, @GeelongGrammar, Marist Brothers Australia. Dioceses of Lismore and Armidale.

[john hedditch @john_hedditch]

@gedkearney Think so 3016 rumbled