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Two men wearing Ambulance Tasmania uniforms, in front of an ambulance.

"It is very unpredictable."
Two men wearing Ambulance Tasmania uniforms sitting in an ambulance.

"We're very proud of the achievements of our volunteers."
A man wearing an Ambulance Tasmania uniform observes an honour board for volunteers at the station.

"There's a lot of positives, like helping people in their time at need alongside a paramedic, part of that team where someone's in a situation and where they're seriously ill, critically ill,"
he said.
A man wearing an Ambulance Tasmania uniform performs CPR on a dummy.

Framed photos lay on a table, showing ambulance volunteers and paramedics from years gone by.

"Obviously that's not good in terms of monitoring patients."
Man sitting in front of book shelf, staring into camera.

"Decision-making about transport is always based on patient and paramedic safety and is determined by the paramedic applying their clinical expertise."

"The call outs are ever increasing, and the numbers of paramedics have not increased,"
he said.

A few ambulances lined up at the bottom of a ramp at a hosptial.

"Not only are they paid more, they've got better working conditions, they don't have the ramping issues that Tasmania has, they don't have the workload issues that we have."
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