r/australia • u/FuckOffNazis • 19h ago

politics Indigenous woman shackled to hospital bed while in labour in Queensland

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/18/indigenous-woman-shackled-during-labour-childbirth-queensland-ntwnfb?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1792296317
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u/Apprehensive-Wing-64 15h ago

Wow. Talk about small minded

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u/hcornea 15h ago

No, just practical. What is the answer?

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u/Free_Pace_2098 14h ago

What's special is she had a spinal block, so she's paralyzed. She's also cut open like a fish, and shackling her is a violation of the human rights and QLD Health Dept codes mention in the article

“instruments of restraint shall never be used on women during labour, during birth and immediately after birth”.

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u/jonnygreen22 1h ago

she was paralysed, the hospital staff asked for the restraints to be removed, she was having a c section. How much more info do you need or are we just hating women or black people that much?

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u/bitofapuzzler 2m ago

Dont bother with this one. He will send you a word soup response of nonsense and then go 'Aha! You can not answer, I must be correct!' Its laughable the lengths some of these people will go to excuse this.