AMPS - Australian Medical Professionals' Society

05/03/2026

Channel 7 has reported on the chilling effect medical regulation is having on doctors speaking publicly.

Doctors who raise their head above the parapet to question evidence, policy, or treatment models are increasingly targeted with complaints and investigations. The message to the profession is clear: stay silent.

Yet Senate committee recommendations have been clear: notifications accepted by AHPRA should be limited to clinical issues relating to patient safety.

When regulators police debate instead of focusing on unsafe clinical practice, they don't protect the public. It silences the very discussions medicine depends on — especially when treatments involving children are debated.

AMPS and NPAA are actively engaging with government and regulators on this issue.

If doctors are punished for speaking, who will speak up when patients are at risk?

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04/03/2026

The causes of Australian excess deaths in 2021, and beyond: An ecological study considering COVID-19, the lockdowns, and the vaccines.

Researchers examined patterns of excess deaths across Australian regions and compared three possible explanations: COVID-19 itself, lockdowns, and vaccination programs. In several regions, excess mortality appeared before widespread COVID transmission and without prolonged lockdowns, but during periods of rapid vaccine rollout.

These findings echo the concerns raised in the Australian Medical Professionals Society book Too Many Dead, which calls for honest scrutiny of pandemic-era health policy, excess deaths, and the unanswered questions many clinicians and families are still asking.

For healthcare professionals and the public alike, the message is clear:

We cannot move forward without the truth.
We cannot rebuild trust without transparency.
And we cannot ignore the growing evidence that demands proper investigation.

Read the study.
Read Too Many Dead.
Then ask the question Australia still hasn’t answered:

Why are so many people still dying?

Background Numerous concerns have been raised about excess mortality persisting beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 and the lockdowns are typically offered a...

04/03/2026

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The Vaccination Conversation is a public seminar designed to bring transparency, expertise, and scrutiny of how vaccines are developed, approved, regulated and integrated into Australia's public health framework.

The seminar will highlight how informed consent, ethical governance, and open scientific discourse matters more than ever.

The Vaccination Conversation is a public seminar designed to bring transparency, expertise, and scrutiny of how vaccines are developed, approved, regulated and integrated into Australia's public health framework. The seminar will highlight how informed c

04/03/2026

Doctors are right to call this what it is: “the wrong reform at the wrong time”

Slashing ambulance transfer targets to 45 minutes sounds decisive. It looks good in a press release. But it does nothing to fix the real crisis.

Hospitals are gridlocked.

We have chronic bed block because there are nowhere near enough aged care and NDIS places. Patients who are medically fit cannot leave. Wards are full. ED backs up. Ambulances ramp.

Add to that severe workforce shortage and burnt-out staff already stretched beyond safe limits

And the solution is… tighter targets?

When there are no beds, targets don’t create flow. They create pressure.

We’ve seen how this plays out:
Corridor nursing.
Patients in unmonitored spaces.
Excessive waiting room times so people call ambulances instead.
Data manipulation.
Rushed discharges.

That is not reform. That is risk.

This is policy designed to improve optics, not outcomes. It shifts pressure onto frontline clinicians instead of fixing aged care capacity, sub-acute beds, community supports and staffing.

You cannot KPI your way out of structural failure.

And practitioners will pay the price — with burnout, moral injury and blame when something goes wrong.

Question 👇
If you work in ED, wards or ambulance services — tell us your story?

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The government’s plan to cut ambulance ramping times is no substitute for a comprehensive strategy to fix chronic problems in Tasmania’s hospitals, health unions say.

03/03/2026

AHPRA says its “number one priority is to prevent harm.”

Yet after multiple complaints about a gynaecologist, patients were reportedly told their matters would go no further.

Colleagues say concerns were dismissed. Practitioners describe being blocked unless frightened patients front the complaint themselves.

This is the problem. Serious allegations are not investigated. But political commentary, satire and “consensus debates” attract relentless scrutiny, extended investigations and onerous regulatory conditions.

Dr Joe Kosterich said it plainly:

“Maybe if AHPRA wasted less time on vexatious and trivial matters they could deal with serious ones… rather than ticking internal boxes!”

That’s the frustration across the profession.

AMPS has repeatedly raised concerns about process failures, inconsistency and misplaced priorities. A regulator that ignores harm while over-policing speech and guideline adherence is not serving the public.

Patient safety must come first. Not optics. Not box-ticking.

Question 👇
Have you experienced inconsistency, delay or dismissal in an AHPRA matter?

Responding to ‘recent media coverage’, a not-so-subtle reminder about practitioners’ notification obligations comes from the regulator.

26/02/2026

🧭 COVID: Never Forget, Never Forgive

A new Quadrant article revisits Australia’s pandemic response — from lockdowns and border closures to vaccine mandates and censorship — and asks hard questions about human rights, medical autonomy and the role of the WHO

The authors argue that emergency powers reshaped the balance between public health and civil liberties — and warn that the proposed WHO Pandemic Agreement may further centralise authority in future crises

Whatever your view of the past few years, one thing is clear:

We must examine what happened.
We must debate it openly.
And we must ensure that medicine never becomes detached from ethics, proportionality and informed consent.

At AMPS, we stand for clinical independence, transparent evidence, and the primacy of the doctor–patient relationship.

🔎 Question for our members:
Looking back, what safeguards should be in place to ensure future public health responses protect both lives and fundamental rights?

Read the full article here:

The Covid-19 era, still very fresh in recent memory, should always remind us of human rights were laid waste by arrogant, obstinate, incompetent governments

12/02/2026

During Senate Economics Legislation Committee hearings, Senator Matthew Canavan raised the joint AMPS–NPAA complaint with the ACCC, questioning the regulator about its handling of concerns regarding potentially misleading health-related fundraising claims.

The complaint relates to representations made to the public about medical interventions for children, where the evidence base, risks, and regulatory safeguards remain contested.

When vulnerable children are involved, professional claims must be accurate, evidence-based, and subject to proper scrutiny.

This is a matter of consumer law, patient safety, and regulatory responsibility, not ideology.

05/02/2026

"The United States’ retreat from evidence-based vaccination policy is accelerating vaccine hesitancy at home and abroad."

Prof Ian Brighthope's latest substack, read below!

Here he mistakes RFK Jr. with President JFK.

08/01/2026

Fertility in Crisis: Expert Voices from the Front Lines.

This international panel brings together frontline experts in reproductive medicine, from obstetrics and IVF biology to midwifery, paediatrics, and psychology. Each are raising the alarm on concerning trends emerging since the COVID era.

Together, they examine clinical signals of harm, data blind spots, and systemic pressures that are placing mothers, babies, and future generations at risk.

Watch now to hear what these professionals are witnessing and why urgent action is needed -

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08/01/2026

🛑 Patient safety must be led by evidence, not age.

The Medical Board of Australia has scrapped its proposal for mandatory health checks for doctors over 70 after concluding there is no evidence such checks would reduce patient harm or complaints. This matters.

Doctors over 70 are not being flagged primarily for health issues. Regulatory actions most often relate to communication, clinical systems, and medication processes — problems that affect clinicians of all ages

Blanket, age-based rules are a blunt instrument.
They risk discrimination, deepen workforce shortages, and miss the real safety levers.

AMPS stands firm following member feedback:
• Patient safety must be competency-based, not age-based
• Policy must follow evidence, not fear
• Experienced doctors are a strength — not a liability
• Support and guardrails beat punitive box-ticking

We need smart regulation. We need fair systems. We need to keep skilled clinicians in practice - especially during a workforce crisis.

Read the full article via The Australian.

Australia’s medical regulator has scrapped a plan to require doctors aged over 70 to undergo health checks after concluding that no existing research demonstrates that such mandatory exam­inations would definitively reduce patient complaints or other notifications.

08/01/2026

🗣️Doctors and Nurses — we see the system failing our children and our profession.

Today’s The Australian highlights a landmark Family Court ruling that pushes back against untested gender-affirming interventions for minors and questions the medical evidence driving current practice.

This isn't an abstract debate. It’s about real kids, real harms, and real clinical standards. Frontline health professionals have been sounding the alarm for years — and now the judiciary has echoed those concerns.

📌 Read our open letters to health leaders — calling for evidence-based care standards across all services:

10/12/2025

A peer-reviewed article led by Dr Jeyanthi Kunadhasan has identified two deaths in the vaccinated arm of the Pfizer COVID-19 trial that were not disclosed to regulators during the 2020 EUA review.

Using Pfizer’s own internal documents, the review shows substantial delays in recording these deaths—delays that meant regulators did not receive complete information at a critical decision point.

This work raises serious questions about data integrity and oversight in one of the most consequential regulatory assessments in recent history.

AMPS commends Dr Kunadhasan’s leadership and commitment to scientific transparency. The full study is now published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: https://hubs.la/Q03XzM9L0