Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on the mass condemnation of the NSW nurses who made anti-Semitic comments

Members of the medical community have voiced their disapproval with the two nurses who bragged about refusing to treat Israeli patients. 

Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, two nurses based out of Bankstown Hospital in Sydney's south-west have been stood down - and reports claim the police have spoken to the pair. 

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says investigations are still ongoing - but the pair will likely never work in a Sydney hospital again. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murray olds, hell, no, hey, good mate, wow, Okay. The
Western Sydney nurses saga continues, what's happened today.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, lots of moving parts. As you say, police have
spoken to them. Not sure one hundred percent where those
discussions have gone. Sarah Abu Lebda and Ahmed Nadia. Police
were waiting until they'd spoken to lawyers. Nadia was born
in Afghanistan, came here at twelve and became an Australian
citizen four years ago. Predictably, Opposition leader Peter Dunton now

(00:30):
jumps up on this political high horse, wants to politicize
all of this, wants a debate about revoking citizenship. Pete,
pipe down, mate, It's not about you. What it is
about is a disgraceful display by a couple of really
young and dumb talk about naive. I'm not sure who
they thought they were talking to, but that the Israeli
influencer Strokes social media expert played them like fiddles.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
It was like, I don't know, it was like fishing.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I mean he comes to bait and bang that biting
In no way does that excuse me? What they had to say,
it was utterly disgraceful they've been sacked from their nursing positions.
They'll never work again. In New South Wales health, the
social media star apparently has been spoken to by police.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
We're waiting to see what came out of that. He's
a regular though, on this web platform that global users
apparently hop onto. And this is all above my head,
but apparently global users can hop on this web platform
and pick up conversations with others at random around the world.
They can use audio or video, and this guy is

(01:32):
a real expert in this, and he's actually says that
he sets out to try and catch people who have
got anti Israeli views and look, in the current climate
around the world, it's not hard to find those people.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
But again you.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Come back to what was completely unacceptable behavior for two
nurses to say if any Israelis coming, he were going
to kill them.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I mean, it's just awful. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Look, look, can I just say just shows an underlining
anti Semitism, but I actually want to broad on that out.
It's actually an anti anti Isralism really, and some of
these kids they don't even know what they're talking about.
They don't even realize what they're actually saying, you know,
And it's yeah, hey.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Look stupid. Stupid.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's a good word, very good word. Four ABC employees
have died from asbestos exposure. Bless.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
This is dreadful. This is far from ship. This is
extremely serious.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
This is down in Melbourne, the old ex ABC television
studios and radio headquarters. The television studios were home until
the I Big Abuton. The radio studios were home in
this building until the late nineteen eighties. The television studios
in use up until twenty seventeen. And as you say,

(02:44):
four employees now have died from mesophilioma, which has come
they say, from breathing in asbestos dust. Now, asbestos was
used as an insulator in the ceilings and in the walls,
and apparently this stuff just leaches out and sort of
bleeds out in little dust particles. These poor people have
breathed it in and they're now dead. And of course,
now the Big, the Big searches on anyone else has

(03:06):
lung has.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Lung problems and who may have worked in these two facilities.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Mate, Mate, I worked in broadcasting House in Wellington, which
was a classic old building and we had asbestos based
acoustic tiles everywhere. Wow, everywhere, you know, it was what
they did back then. So the invocations are coming through
later on, and finally a giant American ute has caused
some outrage in Melbourne.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh mate.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
For honestly, you may have seen these big ram trucks
and so on the roads in New Zealand. Well there's
an even bigger one that's come to Australian shores. Let
me get the dimensions here. This thing is nearly six
meters long and more than two meters wide. They dwarfed
the best selling car over here's the Toota high LUs

(03:54):
and they're pretty big vehicles and you know a lot
of tradees use them.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
And they're really really popular. This makes a high Lux
look like a mini and they don't even fit in
the standard Australian parking spaces. It's like one and a half.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
One guy, and I think it was Melbourne filmed one
of these things going down the road and it struggles.
The driver is struggling to keep it inside the middle.
You know that the strip that runs down the middle
of the road. It's just so bloody. Why the guy
can't keep it in his own lane? Now, why these
things are allowed to come in I don't know. They're
not even subject to the standard Australian safety checks that

(04:32):
are replied to every other vehicle.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
But anyway, apparently, do you.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Think the owners are compensating for something?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
A well, mate, that's very good. They may well be.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
They may well.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
I don't think too many little old ladies are driving
the church. Put it that.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Way, Murray, I thank you so much. Murray Holds out
of Australia.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
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