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On the frontline of abuse

As the Emergency Workers Act is extended to cover GPs, doctors and nurses working in the community, the Minister for Public Health warns that the new zero-tolerance approach will lead to increased prosecutions.

HEADING out alone to a young mum's home to check how she is coping with her baby, public health nurse Frances Grant thought she understood what she was walking into.