Meet Matiu Bush:
According to the Australian Health Network:
He has a Master’s degree in Public Health and broad clinical and managerial nursing experience, including working in Mexico with Nobel Prize Laureate Agnes Bojaxhiu in international border aid and as an emergency, oncology, intensive care nurse.
He is also a sexual health Nurse Practitioner. Matiu contributes to health system innovation through involvement with Better Care Victoria as a board member and the Emerging Leaders Clinical Advisory Committee and as part of Specialist Clinics Collaborative Steering Committee.
Matiu is a member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) and the UX Community of Practice for healthcare and mentors the next generation of undergraduate and postgraduate science students through the University of Melbourne Science Industry Mentoring Program.
If that all wasn’t enough, they (the pronoun of their choice) are also described as “a multifaceted healthcare professional, researcher and nursing activist at the forefront of public health and pandemic response strategies”, a “clinician and a designer who founded One Good Street, a social impact platform to encourage neighbour initiated care for older residents at risk of social isolation and loneliness”, and “the Deputy Director of the Health Transformation Lab at RMIT, designing towards cultures of innovation and creativity in healthcare.”
Sounds like an impressive individual who has a real passion for helping those in need of good healthcare.
Well, yes, but..
Peter Mac’s MOU with an Israeli hospital to which Bush is referring is the one with Sheba Medical Centre, which includes a clinical trial comparing cutting-edge treatments for men with advanced prostate cancer. The MOU will boost access for men to innovative prostate cancer treatments that are being advanced in Australia, for the benefit of people with cancer internationally.
Yet this so-called healthcare professional – who even has experience as an oncology nurse – is willing to put aside the greater good of cancer patients due to his unhinged hatred of Israel.
Now that’s sick.
Mind you, Bush has a history of not exactly doing what’s best for the health of the public.
A senior manager in Victoria’s hotel quarantine program who was stood down for breaching protocols previously worked on ‘designing a good death’.
Matiu Bush – who prefers to be referred to as ‘they’ or ‘them’ instead of ‘he’ or ‘him’ – was stood down on Wednesday after it emerged they refused a Covid-19 test, and failed to hand sanitise or properly use face masks.
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While employed by home care service Bolton Clarke, Bush even worked on ‘designing a good death in residential care.’
In an online article in 2017, they wrote: ‘Death is a part of reality, and though some people may shy away from the topic – it is something everyone will have to eventually face.’
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It emerged on Wednesday that Bush refused to have a Covid-19 test – which is required of all quarantine workers every day – when leaving the Intercontinental Hotel at 12.05pm on April 20.
Government incident reports obtained by The Australian newspaper stated that when an army corporal told them to get tested, they replied words to the effect of ‘I’m the head of IPC and I override that protocol’ before walking off.
Another operational incidents review said Bush and two other public servants refused to sign in using their QR codes when entering the Pullman Hotel on March 1.
The review said: ‘When signing in they were asked to sign in via their personal QR code… They refused, stating that as they have been vaccinated they are not required to do so and instead manually signed in the visitor log.’
Later that same afternoon, the same group entered the Mercure Hotel and, according to the incident review, ‘walked past the sanitising station without sanitising and also did not change masks’.
The group told reception staff they ‘had ducked out for coffee, and that the hotel is empty anyway,’ the review said.
The review also said Bush ‘did not sign out upon his departure from the hotel’.
A spokesman for Quarantine Victoria said Bush initially had been ‘counselled’ over both incidents but further action was taken on Wednesday morning.
‘Last night I become aware of reports in relation to Mr Bush and I formed the opinion overnight that Mr Bush needs to be stood down pending a review,’ Mr Pearson said.
