Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on the arrest of a nurse who claimed she would refuse to treat Israeli patients

A New South Wales nurse that was stood down over a social media video where she claimed she would refuse to treat Israeli patients, has been arrested.  

The 26-year-old has been charged with threatening violence to a group and using a service to harass and threaten to kill.  

In the filmed conversation with an Israeli influencer, the nurse allegedly bragged about refusing to treat Israeli patients, killing them, and saying they would go to hell.  

Australian correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking federal police have put in a lot of leg work on the case.  

Price says the officers travelled to Israel and translated the interview from Hebrew to English.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Across the Tasman we go see Price. Very good morning
to you Wending. Now what a you got in the
last couple of minutes, So the nurse in the.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hospital, yes, and breaking news. You remember the two nurses
out of that Sydney hospital in the scrubs, they were
doing an online chat with this Israeli influencer from Israel
and they then started talking about what they would do
if Jewish patients were admitted to the hospital, making wild
claims that Jewish patients had been killed within the hospital.

(00:28):
It was all very very disturbing and nasty stuff. Well,
in the last few moments we learned that one of
those nurses, the female woman called Sarah Lebda, was charged
on Tuesday night, seven thirty Tuesday night, charged with threatening
violence using a carriage service, which just means that she
was using that chat with the Israeli influencer to make

(00:49):
threats against people and police have decided the charger no
news on the male part of that conversation. The other
development on that was that New South Wales police actually
trapped was Australia Federal Police actually traveled to Israel interviewed
the influencer. They had to get that interview. When it
came back, it was in Hebrew, had to get it
transferred into English. They're now working their way through that.

(01:11):
So that's happened in the last couple good.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, a lot of people will be pleased about that,
because I know in the last couple of days the
pressure has gone on the feeds to cough and they
had to say, look, be patient.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, I'm very reluctant to talk about it, but we've
got center estimates hearings on at the moment. I guess
I've got no doubt that will come up at some
point today.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Right, So, the prospect of a hung parliament because we
sort of do I mean the CMMP environment and stuff.
I mean we're kind of used to it now, but
you still run a sort of a system whereby somebody
wins and somebody doesn't win. What are you going to
do with the Home Parliament?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, according to the mining executives and news quotes used
language that I've rarely heard. Two of them top energy chiefs.
One of them is Meg O'Neil, who runs Woodside Energy,
massive company, got a thirty billion dollar project on the
north west shelp. The other one is Brett Woods, who
runs Kerry Stokes's oil business out of Wa Beach Energy Woods,

(02:08):
writing in this Journey Today, said it'll be a nightmare
and a quiet menace of a horrific policy will come
out of it. If we have a cross bench dominated
by the Greens and Teals in minority government with the
Labor Party, would a meg O'Neil went further. She said
the balance of power featuring the Greens and the Tials
would quote frankly, be a Nightmayor. Now this is extremely

(02:33):
strong language weeks out for an election. The boss of
the oil operation he said, quote so if you feel
your hippocket as a dull ache, now it'll be battered
and bruised if the Greens are handed more sway in Parliament. O'Neil,
the woman the running woodside, she said, if the Teals
hold the balance of power federally with the Greens, it

(02:53):
would be bad for households. It would be a nightmare,
and she was beyond frustrated with the ongoing delays with
the Northwest Shelf approval. Now that project is called the
Burup Peninsula. It's actually up in Northwest and Western Australia.
It's been held up by all of these people claiming
that it's going to damage Aboriginal rock art up there,

(03:14):
which it clearly is not going to do. So that's
just a shot across the bows of anyone who thinks
that they might be voting independent during the next election.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Here's the advantage of a system that you have that
we don't have, and that is that you can manipulate
your vote, or at least massage you vote. We've only
got a couple of votes, and this happened a couple
of elections ago. People got frightened for the Greens and
they balked on the Greens and they gave Labor the majority,
and Labor went nuts and ruined the country. If you
preference appropriately, can you achieve what you think you are

(03:45):
going to achieve when you vote?

Speaker 2 (03:48):
It seems impossible to think you can. I mean, you
go into the booth and you've got a mile long
voting slip and you've got to go number from one
to as many as forty or something. You feel inadequate
when you're doing it, and the party's trying to give
you a hout to vote cart as you walk through
the door, or which makes it easy you just tick

(04:09):
their candidate preferences go automatically to whoever they suggest they
should go to. But the system is very much invent
in advantage of the independence. And I think the tills
are largely going to hang on to those inner suburban
seats in Sydney and Melbourne. It's the greens where you
can pick off some of them in Queensland and it's

(04:29):
the outer suburban seats where Labour's got small majorities. That
is where you will probably see the LMP pickup numbers.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, and then we come to desenter, who wants to
make the place of townhouse capital in what form? Where
is this her area or the whole of the state.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Whole state? The quote was, I want to make Victoria
the townhouse capital of Australia. Now this is really disturbing.
What you you can't guess at it, but I'm going
to ask you anyway, what do you think the normal
waking time to get planning permission to build a house
in inverted.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, I'd like to say seven days, but it's probably
going to be fifteen months.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
One hundred and forty five days. She has said, if
you build the townhouses that I want built, and these
are three story structures, I'll make sure that the override
your local council and you'll get permissioned in fifty eight days.
And if your next door neighbors says, I don't like
three storytown has so I don't want one next to me,
you'll have no opportunity to appeal.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wow, that's called communism, Steve. I'm not sure if you
work that one out yet. But we were having a
similar thing here that got killed as well, and it
was going to be three houses, our three stories on
a standard block of land six or seven hundred square
meter block of land, you can build three three story
houses and no one could complain about it. And quite
you know, obviously people did complain, so it never came

(05:46):
to pass. So good lucky.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Well, same thing's going to happen here. I mean, it's
just you go to some of these outer suburbs and
you know, there's no infrastructure, there's no park lands, there's
no schools, there's one shopping center.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's horrific, and they're all like, Victoria, just to spring
this on you. And I apologize if you don't know,
because why Victoria. The Crimes Act Section four five eight
allows anyone to arrest anyone they find committing an offense.
Do you know that to be true?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I did not know that. So that's going to make
my day very busy.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
So you're out there and make a few citizens arrest.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, correctly, while we going to Chatterel Street, when I
get off the phone and arrest a few of those
people wandering around with ice addiction, making them some that
look like a tip mate.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
You go, well, Stuve Price out of Australia. Backhund next
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