I dont see the report as having been written very clearly. It initially states "Meetings of ambulance officers in central Queensland yesterday voted to allow paramedics to refuse to fly in single-engine helicopters which rely on a pilot's visibility and not instruments to navigate" which infers that single engine aircraft are inherently dangerous at night.
Shouldnt the Union Rep spokesman Steve Crowe rather have said he expected a decision within a week on whether other paramedics would endorse the total ban on night flying in helicopters that do not meet a minimum equipment level for night flying.