Danielle Berkovic

Last night’s terrorist attack on families celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. My heart goes out to the loved ones of all those killed and injured. After yesterday Australia will never be the same. Every Australian has been attacked by this evil and hateful act of violence. It was all too predictable and so many of us said so. The Director General of our national security and intelligence agency ASIO even rang the alarm bell himself warning that the dangerous rise in antisemitism was his ‘number one priority’ in terms of threats to life. Why didn’t our leaders listen and why didn’t they act? The massacre we have seen at one of our nations most inconic landmarks is the culmination of an unprecedented failure of leadership to heed the warning signs that were so obvious to every Australian who opened their eyes. From the disgraceful scenes on the steps of the Opera House just hours after Hamas’s attack on October 7 to the firebombing of synagogues and child care centres, the doxxing of Jewish artists, harassment of jewish students and daily violent protests on our streets, the last two years has seen a tsunami of hate that has left the local jewish community feeling abandoned and alone. In response we got little more than hollow words from our leaders as they stood by and watched the flames of hate burn. The Prime Minister’s public pledge after October 7 that he would not let antisemitism ‘find so much as a foothold here’ in Australia, is now fully exposed for the failure it has been. The fact is Australia is no longer safe for Jews. Everything must now change from here. Everything must be on the table. The law must be enforced. Those who spew hate must no longer be tolerated. We cannot as a country continue as we have done. Our leaders must now finally stand up, accept responsibility for what has happened on their watch and close this shameful chapter in our nation’s history. Every Australian must demand nothing less.

Imagine surviving the holocaust and getting murdered 80 years later for being Jewish in Australia. Actually, you don’t have to imagine. It happened today.

When Jews pray at a synagogue, their place of worship can be set on fire. When Jews eat at a kosher restaurant, its windows can be smashed. When Jews study at a Jewish school, they receive bomb threats. When Jews visit a Jewish museum, they can be shot in the street. When Jews stay home, they can be poisoned by a nanny. When Jews gather peacefully to demand the return of hostages, they can be burned alive with firebombs. And when Jews attend a Chanukah party on the beach, they can be hunted down and murdered like animals. This is not a life. World leaders have allowed this to become our reality. Now they must act. We refuse to live like this.

To say the actions of two NSW Health workers are disturbing, frightening and lacking in humanity would be an understatement. In fact, any words are an understatement. For any healthcare worker to have so much racist hate in their hearts for another member of a different cultural community as to threaten to kill them if they were patients, and claim to already have done so, is catastrophic for our nation. These individuals can never be near a patient again. The investigation by police must be full and wide ranging. The penalties must be commensurate with the investigation outcomes to even begin to restore trust. We must come together, those of us working in Australian healthcare, and stare down this hate. Never again.

New SR exploring barriers & enablers to short-stay arthroplasty programs for hip & knee replacement. Very timely in the Australian context with hospital capacity & funding constraints. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ms… @IlanaAckerman @Physio_Pat @DrIanHarris @RachelleBuchbin @ZANFINA

Julia Gillard’s important & unambiguous message from last night’s @SkyNewsAust documentary, Never Again: The Fight Against Antisemitism, was we must learn the lesson of history and call out antisemitism before it is too late.

Do you want to work with us? Do you have strong project management/research management skills? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to lead a critical project in our program along side myself-MRFF funded Check it out 👇🏻 careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/en/…

Come join us - the Musculoskeletal Health and Wiser Health Care Units are looking for a Research Manager to co-ordinate our health services and implementation research. Based at School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (St Kilda Rd, Melbourne) livehire.com/job/alfredheal…

Latest PhD article hot off the press: An exploration of intensive care nurses’ perceptions of workload in providing ECMO support #ECMO #nurses authors.elsevier.com/a/1ibHy3hkROCW… @jaynesheldrake @chodgsonANZICRC @danielleberko @jasonwatto @IntensiveDave @Aus_CC

Share your experience of nutrition during and after critical illness…. If you are a patient/family member or caregiver for someone who has been admitted to intensive care in Australia or NZ and wish to share your nutrition experience get in touch 👇🏻 hic.org.au/job/anzic-nutr…

"I’m hoping that one day doctors will remember to find out about me and my life before I became ill." Louise Smith looks at how asking questions that elicit who a patient is, and not just their diagnosis and symptoms, leads to more compassionate care bmj.com/content/384/bm…

There is also an important evidence gap around factors associated with poor outcomes, to guide optimal patient selection into short-stay programs for hip and knee replacement.

Our SR on short-stay hip and knee replacement programs is published in @BMCMedicine! We found low-certainty evidence of non-inferior 90-day safety outcomes compared to usual care: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… @IlanaAckerman @Physio_Pat @DrIanHarris @RachelleBuchbin @soh_sze @ZANFINA

Pleased to share the first paper from our short-stay joint replacement research program - examining health professional, administrator, patient and carer perspectives. link.springer.com/10.1186/s12913… @danielleberko @soh_sze @ZANFINA @RachelleBuchbin @DrIanHarris @Monash_SPHPM

@rosieainley 💯 percent agree with you

@danielleberko I agree that's fantastic to see. We want to see this co-desugn approach adopted as standard everywhere.

"Patients with inflammatory conditions were involved in prioritising the research question... Our dissemination strategy was developed in partnership with the members". A pleasure to read this in the methods of this significant trial #PatientExperience #consumers

@darsh_ayton @abcnews @Baptcare @MartaWoolford2 I really enjoyed working on this project and learnt a lot from all involved - congratulations on seeing the model come to life!

Thankful to @abcnews for profiling our partnership with @Baptcare to create an innovative model of care - Living Well Together - for people living in residential aged care. Shout out to co-researchers @MartaWoolford2 Dr Lauren Bruce @danielleberko

The first PhD paper published by my first PhD student! A critical review on trauma-informed care in residential aged care. Well done Ann 👏🍾

@darsh_ayton this is awesome - congratulations Darsh! 👏🥳

Looking forward to the professional development, networking and mentoring of the RTA program. Delighted to be selected and met some amazing fellow participants at the launch last week!