Registration of nurses in New South Wales is the responsibility of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW (the Council). They have now suspended the registrations of registered nurses Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh effective as of 13 February 2025.
 
As a result, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) has automatically updated their record on the public register of practitioners and as a result this means the two nurses are unable to practise nursing anywhere in Australia, in any context.
 
Australians have a right to feel safe wherever they go and nowhere should be safer than a hospital.
 
Health workers have a solemn duty to treat and heal everyone who comes before them needing help. The overwhelming majority hold to that oath.
 
The idea that you would single out a particular group in our community and indicate you wouldn’t care for them, let alone actively threaten their lives, runs against every single principle in our health care system.
 
Their sickening comments – and the hatred that underpins them – have no place in our health system and no place anywhere in Australia.