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To @scottmorrisonmp, @dom.perrottet, Brad Hazzard, and @liberalaus ,

This is our baby boy, Ethan, born Sunday January 2, 2022 - and who nearly died because of your incompetence.

You have had two years to bolster health services, to prepare for the worst and expect to be overwhelmed. Two years to prepare before this child ever existed. And yet, when we called 000 at 6am on Sunday morning after Ethan was unexpectedly born on our bathroom floor and wasn’t breathing or moving, we were told there were no ambulances available to dispatch and the wait time was unknown.

I had to strap my wife, Melanie, into our car while she held onto our newborn, who was white as a ghost, and risk the drive to hospital ourselves, all the while she gave CPR to our boy.

Thanks to the incredible Midwives, Nurses and Doctors at The Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick, our Ethan has made a full recovery after a week in NICU. Melanie is a trained midwife, perhaps it was destiny that she was able to deliver her own child while in the pain of labour and keep him alive en route to hospital. She is a hero like so many Mothers, but what if she wasn’t a trained medical professional? What if we were ordinary people reliant on health services? We were told that if we had of waited for an ambulance, our Ethan might have died.

I’m disappointed at myself that it took this experience to be exposed to how utterly cruel your incompetence is. The hospital staff are the most inspiring individuals I’ve had the privilege of meeting, but everyday we overheard conversations about how they are overworked, under staffed, and undersupplied; how they are forced to take sick leave unpaid, as well as having leave revoked; how everyday they cannot provide the care they want to and are on the verge of breakdown. Yet you pretend it’s coping.

Our situation had nothing to do with Covid. If Ethan didn’t survive, his death wouldn’t have made any Covid metrics, but just how many deaths are on your hands outside of this pandemic? Our son isn’t lucky to have survived his birth, he is lucky to have survived your government. You have failed your people, your country and your own humanity.

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