The average Australian takes their entire allowance of 10 days of sick leave each year, without the rigours of strong winds and critically damaged unsafe public transport, housing and work infrastructure. Our tendency to “throw a sickie” is tolerated as nationally approved gaming.

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In my own experience, sick leave taken fraudulently by doctors and nurses leads to more stressful workloads and adverse risks for staff that do turn up. It seems to me that half of all sick leave taken in Australia is as a selfish entitlement to have rest and recreation. The expectation is those who turn up for work will make up the shortfalls and assume responsibility for clinical and stress-related errors and delays or deficiencies in care.