The NSW government has ordered all hospitals to establish two waiting
rooms, one for Blanks and one for Natives.
This apparently is a national policy which like the Qld nurses policy
to ensure that aborigines are aware that white nurses have privilege.
That policy is also national policy.

So an aborigine turns up and the nurse says "I have privilege and don't you forget it !"
So do not go in there, your waiting room is down the corridor.

It is unbelievable that rules like this would be introduced these days.
But there it is right out of the premier's mouth !

//The NSW government has ordered all hospitals to establish two waiting rooms//

http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/cultural-emergency-waiting-rooms-for-nsw/news-story/c6694a96129c59c66cf2bc142e920412

"While the document does not mandate separate waiting rooms for Aboriginal patients it calls for a "culturally appropriate space" within each hospital to be identified.

Hospitals may also display Aboriginal artwork as another way of being more inclusive and welcoming."

Reading further than the headline is such a chore, isn't it Bazz?

Basically all that's going happen is that hospitals will hang some Aboriginal art on their waiting room walls, and the health department will presumably cross their fingers and hope that hanging up a few paintings will magically narrow the gap. It's daft, but it's hardly 'arpartheit'.

"A trial on the mid north coast showed a 50 per cent reduction in the number of Aboriginal patients leaving early from emergency departments after cultural awareness training for staff was introduced."

This is an issue even here in my neck of the woods. There is usually a cultural liaison officer on call to try and deal with some of the feelings of fear and mistrust hospitals can induce in some of our indigenous community. This is just a part of our hospitals fulfilling their mandate of care. Only miserly old farts would begrudge it.

As far as I'm aware this is an attempt to make hospitals
more culturally aware of their local communities. To
make them more welcoming and to train their staff
appropriately towards this end. It is not mandatory, nor is
it an attempt at any sort of - "apartheid." And apparently
it is working well. The numbers of our Indigenous People
leaving the Emergency Departments of Hospitals has
decreased. They do not feel as intimated. At least it's
worth trying. Educating hospital staff seems to be the key.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/39707841/nsw-eds-to-have-cultural-waiting-rooms/

Oooops, sorry for my typo.

Arnt they lucky they can get medical attention rather than before settlement. I mean invasion day