SA Ambulance Service

[upbeat music] Tell you what, truth really is stranger than fiction.

Um, there's a small town on the South Australian-Victorian border called Pinaroo on the South Australian side, and there's a chap who's been volunteering, uh, with the South Australian Ambulance Service for decades.

A- and he's now been stood down, told not to go in and volunteer anymore because amongst other complaints, Mr. Berlin, Rob Berlin, has been told he's in trouble, um, because he allegedly didn't provide a vegan burger to someone who'd come to visit the ambulance station.

[laughs] Serious.

Okay, so they came.

Didn't go anywhere, but I'm a paid up member here in SA Ambulance, so I went and then I got a bill from there.

I rang them yesterday to see what could go on, and they said, "Ring SA Ambulance." Well, that is my issue.

I could not get through at all.

I waited 50 minutes and then I was told, "I'm sorry, we have too overloaded with calls.

So I went from Western Australia to South Australia.

I went from being a frontline paramedic to a frontline manager to finishing up as a director with SA Ambulance Service.

And then that took me into the Northern Territory, not somewhere I ever thought I would go.

But I was the CEO of the ambulance service for the Northern Territory for about four and a half years.