John Smith wrote on Feb 14^th, 2023 at 7:33am:


She is an NT nurse and she saw horror - as did I

A Northern Territory nurse who spoke out about the sexual abuse children in remote Indigenous communities suffer has come under fire from trolls.

Rachel Hale, 45, has been working as a full-time cosmetic nurse for the past two years in the Territory.

She previously worked for Darwin's Danila Dilba Aboriginal Health Service, NT Health, an alcohol and rehab centre and a jail and did cosmetic work on the side.

But after sharing anecdotes about some of the horrific abuse she and her colleagues have witnessed, she came under fire for giving an 'unsubstantiated' theory amid claims she wasn't a real nurse.

'Can anyone confirm if Rachel Hale has ever worked as a nurse (no not a cosmetic nurse) in Alice Springs?' one person questioned on Facebook.

A YouTube commentator, Tom Tanuki, dedicated an entire 15-minute video to Ms Hale, where he rejected her being dubbed an 'Outback nurse' - arguing she simply 'squirted Botox' into peoples' faces.

Ms Hale lives in Darwin and visits Alice Springs every couple of months for her business.

She said she has experienced first-hand the violence in the town but has now had to defend her background.

'Everyone started calling me and messaging me, saying I'm a fake and I've never witnessed anything,' she told news.com.au, adding she's received countless 'disgusting' and threatening messages.

'People are saying I'm just trying to promote my own profile. What am I gaining out of this? I knew I'd get blowback, I just didn't think it would be this severe.'

The nurse said while she now works in a different profession, 'it doesn't discount what I've seen and what my colleagues have seen'.

'It's about these people boosting their own political and personal platforms and tearing me to shreds.'

Ms Hale earlier revealed the shocking sexual and physical abuse to Daily Mail Australia, claiming children were roaming the streets at night because they were safer there than at home.

During her 14 years of nursing in communities near both Alice Springs and Darwin, when she was called to a remote Aboriginal home she would be accompanied by a second nurse because the visits were so unsafe.

'Some of these houses have 10-15 people sleeping on the floor of a three-bedroom house. There's no personal hygiene, there's lice, scabies, fungal rashes, maggots in wounds, perforated ear drums - the level of care is shocking,' she said.

'That's why the kids are not at home, along with the vicious sexual assaults. The parents, the uncles, the cousins are all drinking and the kids are being preyed upon.

'The wives are being beaten in front of the kids, check any emergency department and you'll see the horrific injuries.'

Ms Hale recalled horrifying incidents and injuries seen by herself and nursing colleagues of children as young as two being raped.

'It's hard to talk about, but the physical trauma that these kids have endured is hard to comprehend,' she said.

'My colleagues told me about witnessing an eight-year-old girl being raped by a man who had covered her lower half with butter.

'She didn't scream or cry or resist because she was so used to it.'

Ms Hale said she saw very young children and toddlers with sexually transmitted diseases, including a whole family with the same strain of gonorrhea - both children and parents.

'I've seen a four-year-old boy in a clinic with anal warts and a sex-year-old girl with vaginal sores,' she said.

'Children petrified to come in [to medical clinics] with their mothers as ''daddy will find out'' and the abuse will escalate.'

Ms Hale said alcohol did play a big role, as it perpetuated the abuse children faced at home and shaped their lives as they grew up.

'I've seen babies dehydrated as their mother wouldn't breastfeed and were drinking alcohol and pregnant women pickling their babies with a bottle of rum each day while six months pregnant,' she said.

'Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are very common and often used as a defence in court to excuse behaviour.

'Some feed a toddler a can of Coke and a packet of chips for the day and that's it.'

Alcohol restrictions have since been implemented into Alice Springs following Anthony Albanese's visit last week.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11707443/Northern-Territory-nurse-Rache...

Belgarion wrote on Feb 14^th, 2023 at 8:09pm:


The Government never publishes propaganda, either for or against for refereda, Belgarion.  They are limited by the Constitution and the High Court decisions on the matter.  If you are old enough to remember the last referenda - the Republican question, the Government in that cast did not issue anything on the yes or no side of the question.

She injects botox into the wrinkles of wankers.  She was put on the rights soapbox as an expert on nursing in Alice,  a city she has never worked as a nurse.

By the way numbnuts,  all nurses see horrors. People don't go to hospital to celebrate.

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 14^th, 2023 at 8:22pm:


Stick to the TSK TSK TSK post. It’s far safer....in your case.

Lisa Jones wrote on Feb 15^th, 2023 at 6:43am:


Oh, dearie, dearie, me, Lisa, are you afraid of the truth that much that you need to lie to yourself?   

Quote John Smith [quote]She injects botox into the wrinkles of wankers.  She was put on the rights soapbox as an expert on nursing in Alice,  a city she has never worked as a nurse.

By the way numbnuts,  all nurses see horrors. People don't go to hospital to celebrate.

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