Victoria

‘Pushed, kicked, spat on’: ED staff demand 24/7 security as violence hits record levels

Brisbane Times Melissa Cunningham

20 Sept 2026 05:00 AEST Summary

From the report

Victorian doctors and nurses are pushing for around-the-clock specialist security guards to be stationed at every emergency department amid an escalation in violent assaults and rising ‘horrific’ racial and sexualised verbal abuse driving staff out of the profession.

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Niral Score 14 mundaneloaded

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Sentiment -0.5 hostilefavourable Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 20.3 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Brisbane Timesas they published this story	14

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The Age ‘Pushed, kicked, spat on’: ED staff demand 24/7 security as violence hits record levels Niral 14 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Pushed, kicked, spat on’: ED staff demand 24/7 security as violence hits record levels Niral 14 political 0 WAtoday ‘Pushed, kicked, spat on’: ED staff demand 24/7 security as violence hits record levels Niral 14 political 0