What happened Thursday 5 June, 2025
With that, we’ll end our live coverage of the day’s news. Here’s a summary of the main developments:
The Tasmanian parliament’s lower house has passed a vote of no confidence in the Liberal premier, Jeremy Rockliff, setting the stage for the fourth state election in seven years. Parliament will resume on Tuesday to pass supply bills, before Rockliff meets with the governor later that day to request a new election.
Erin Patterson has denied deliberately foraging death cap mushrooms and weighing them to calculate the fatal dose for a person, but admitted a series of lies to police as homicide detectives investigated the fatal lunch.
Lidia Thorpe has urged Anthony Albanese to “do his homework” on bullying allegations against Greens turned Labor senator Dorinda Cox, claiming the prime minister was “wrong” to publicly declare the matters had been dealt with.
A cure for HIV could be a step closer after researchers found a new way to force the virus out of hiding inside human cells.
A controversial bill to curtail workers’ compensation claims for psychological injuries incurred by New South Wales workers will be sent to a parliamentary inquiry, after crossbenchers and the Coalition banded together to force the inquiry.
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NSW parliament bans public-private partnerships for hospitals
The New South Wales parliament has voted to ban all future public private partnerships being imposed on the state’s acute hospitals.
The Minns government had foreshadowed “Joe’s law” prior to Thursday’s vote, named for the two-year-old boy Joe Massa who died at the Northern Beaches hospital.
He suffered a cardiac arrest and died in September after waiting three hours in the emergency department operated by private hospital provider Healthscope in a public-private partnership (PPP).
On Thursday evening, NSW health minister Ryan Park said the PPP Prohibition Bill had made amendments to the Health Services Act to prohibit governments from entering into a Northern Beaches-style arrangement to build or operate an acute public hospital.
“As a Labor government, we have always adamantly opposed these sorts of arrangements – and we will continue to oppose them, now and into the future,” Park said.
He added:
The private sector can and does play an important part in the delivery of public hospital services.
However, the use of a Northern Beaches Hospital style public private partnership raises complex issues and risks.
This Government does not believe, and never has believed, that this is a model that is best for public health care. Local community hospitals that are designed to provide services to public patients should be part of the public health system.”
You can read more about Joe’s law in this piece from health reporter Natasha May here:
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