What is scary is that our Governments of the West send delegates to this World Economic Forum whose goal is total control! ‘The great reset has a hidden agenda of Implementing Communism across the Globe.’ https://rumble.com/vb9fzz-the-great-reset-agenda-2030.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JustAnotherAnon&ep=2
Australian Federal Government
‘Who leads the way in Australia when it comes to hating on Christians and Christianity – someone who does so regularly, habitually, and as a matter of course? One could think of plenty of likely candidates here. But we can certainly nominate one Victorian politician who has turned anti-Christian bigotry into an art form.
I refer of course to Australia’s most flagrant misotheist and Christophobe, Dan Andrews. This socialist left premier has spent most of his adult life waging war on Christianity and its beliefs and values. The list of his many hateful actions against the faith gets longer each passing month, and I have regularly written about this antichrist leader.
Too often I have had to document his many acts of infamy and villainy over the years.
Whether it is the radical abortion and euthanasia laws he has pushed through; his undying support of the diabolical “safe schools” programs and the like; his promotion of all things homosexual and trans; his attempts to throw into prison praying Christians who dare to help those struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction; and even his war on Christmas carols – to name a few examples – this guy is Pharaoh, Herod and Nero rolled into one.
Just how far can this guy go in his anti-Christian zeal? What has possessed him to keep this war against Christianity on the top of his priority list? Just why does he feel he must personally destroy the faith of millions of Victorians? Needless to say, I would have answers for all of those questions!
But consider his latest ugly outrage: his ongoing war against Australia’s – and the world’s – greatest ever tennis player, Margaret Court. Of course she has been under attack for years now, for the simple reason that she dares to be a Christian, dares to have a church in Perth that is faithful to the gospel, and is committed to standing up for biblical values in a pagan world.
So the hate-filled secular left have been hating on her quite some time, and have even sought to get the Margaret Court Arena renamed in Melbourne. On and on it goes. Their vile poisonous hatred knows no bounds. And Andrews is leading the pack here.
The most recent episode involves the news that she is about to be awarded an Order of Australia honour on Australia Day. That has got Andrews and the other Christophobes foaming at the mouth. As one news item put it:
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said he [was] “quite sick” of discussing Ms Court after being asked about the backlash toward her during a press conference on Friday. “I’m quite sick of talking about that person every summer,” he said.
“I do not support that but I don’t give out those gongs, that’s not a matter for me, that’s for others.” Andrews stated Court’s views were “disgraceful and hurtful”, adding they “cost lives”. “Calling out bigotry is always important. This bigoted quackery costs lives.”
Dan Andrews just could not contain his irrational hatred. As he said on Twitter:
“I don’t want to give this person’s disgraceful, bigoted views any oxygen. But when others insist on rewarding them with this country’s highest honour – I think it’s worth saying again: Grand Slam wins don’t give you some right to spew hatred and create division. Nothing does.”
Good grief. Talk about a deplorable rant filled with falsehoods and furphies. Talk about showing your true colours. For leftist thugs like Andrews, those who dare to hold opposing points of view are not allowed to speak. Freedom of speech is only for those who hold the “correct” positions on contentious issues. All others must just sit down and shut up. Thanks for that strong stand for freedom and democracy Dan.
And believing what the overwhelming majority of mankind has always believed throughout human history is not bigotry. To simply affirm the truth that marriage is between a man and a woman is not spewing hate. You are the one spewing hate Andrews. You are the one causing division.
Court has done more good for more people – including homosexuals – than Andrews has ever done. Her church food distribution program alone – which serves everyone without partiality – has provided so much help to so many. Court loves all people and wishes the best for them. She even wishes the best for Andrews and prays for him.
And for Andrews to claim that her views were putting people’s lives at risk was utterly bizarre. Indeed, that is a bit rich coming from a guy who is directly responsible for causing the deaths of over 800 innocent people in his spectacular failure to manage the corona crises and the hotel quarantine programme.
Court is doing all she can to help save people’s lives – physically and spiritually. But all Andrews can do is keep pushing his ugly hatred, animosity and bigotry. What a loathsome political leader he is. As Sky News host Rowan Dean said about his remarks:
“In the petty, petulance stakes, nothing of course could match the spoilt, meanspirited, arrogant, virtue-signally narcissism of the premier of Victoria parading in front of his sycophantic press groupies.”
Of course Andrews was not alone in this hateful, bigoted reaction – there are plenty of other Christophobes out there who have been just as bad in their comments. Hardcore God-hater Phillip Adams was also quick to condemn her: “Margaret Court gets an AC – Australia’s top gong – in next week’s Honours List? Far worse than Bettina Arndt’s AM. Or Tony’s knighthood for the Duke. A disgraceful, shameful, tone deaf decision.”
Lesbian activist Magda Szubanksi was quick to comment: “Largely, to be honest, I think she’s irrelevant. We have marriage equality now. There are still many things that need to be worked on … but really I think let her wither on the vine.”
And then fake Christian Father Rod Bower of Gosford Anglican had this to say on his infamous outdoor signpost: “When homophobia is honoured everyone s dishonoured.” Give it a rest Rod. One day you will stand before the Lord to give an account of how you have for so long dishonoured God by your apostasy.
Other Labor big wigs also chimed in with their venom. Anthony Albanese said this: “Margaret Court has already been honoured for her tennis prowess. She’s already an Officer of the Order of Australia. I think it’s clear for everyone to see that making her a Companion of the Order of Australia has nothing to do with tennis.”
Labor Shadow Health Minister Chris Bowen agreed: “(Ms Court has) caused great hurt and anguish for many, many Australians and in my very strong view have not reflected mutual respect and respect for people’s beliefs and respect for people’s sexuality that is an important part of being a modern Australian.”
Wow, the haters sure are gonna hate. But pride of place certainly goes to Andrews. His demonic contempt for this wonderful woman of God is just so frightful to behold. And he always carries on like this when anyone dares to stand for biblical truth and values.
Just like Bower will one day face the one true and living God, so too will Andrews and his ilk. They need to repent now before it is too late. Keep them in your prayers. They sure need it.’https://goodsauce.news/calling-out-australias-most-shameless-christophobe/
The climate scammers are out in full force now that Leftist Sleepy Joe is at the helm. The world according to Bishop Ussher was only a little over 1600 years from the original creation when man had gotten so wicked that God sent a deluge upon the world and ONLY EIGHT PEOPLE SURVIVED. It wasn’t carbon that caused the flood but the sinfulness of man but as history shows man doesn’t learn much from history.
Now, today, it isn’t the sinfulness of mankind that causes politicians to lose sleep but its too MUCH CARBON!
It was only at midday Friday The Spectator Australia asked Will Australia face carbon tariffs under the Biden regime? By that evening, the Prime Minister had pre-empted any trade war with an immediate surrender or, as his spin on the front page of The Weekend Australian put it, declaring that the “Politics of carbon has ended“.
The Biden Administration’s flurry of energy and carbon emission-related measures during its first day have had an immediate effect on Australian policy, with Scott Morrison declaring that political debate about reaching a carbon-neutral future is over.
Overturning Trump’s policies, Biden has recommitted the United States to the Paris Climate Accord, rescinded approvals for leases to explore for oil and gas on public lands and for a major oil pipeline — with the loss of thousands of jobs in his own country and Canada — and reimplemented tight vehicle emission controls.
It would not have been lost on Australian bureaucrats that Biden has previously discussed a carbon tax and that he has selected as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, who has been working with the bipartisan Climate Leadership Council on carbon emission policies.
Yellen’s aim is for policies that would not leave US businesses vulnerable to competition from nations that are not incurring the costs of decarbonising their economies. Her proposal is for “carbon customs unions” that are to be deemed compliant with World Trade Organization rules. This is similar to EU thinking. The policy would impose punitive carbon tariffs on imports from countries judged to have inadequate emission reduction policies and perhaps offer exporters GST-type rebates on the emission-restraining costs they incur.
Yellen’s approach is consistent with views of Obama officials that have been appointed to key positions in the Biden Administration. Among these is former Environment Protection Agency (EPA) head, Gina McCarthy as National Climate Adviser and John Kerry as the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. Biden has also appointed other climate change warriors to head powerful agencies, including the new the EPA head, Michael Regan and Green New Deal proponent Deb Haarland as Secretary of the Interior.
Four years ago, in my book Climate Change: Treaties and Policies in the Trump Era, I noted President Trump’s rejection of doom-laden climate prognoses and his determination to avoid measures that would place the US at a commercial disadvantage to other countries. That meant rejecting the Paris Climate Accord with its hefty decarbonisation costs. Fast-growing developing countries: China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia had also rejected emission restraints and once the US did so, this left only the EU almost alone among the major emitters. This would cause the Paris Accord to collapse, bringing a different end to the climate wars than the one now foreshadowed.
Trump’s low-cost energy policies contributed to a resurgence of the US economy, where high growth was accompanied by record-low unemployment rates and the US becoming, for the first time in 60 years, a net exporter of oil and gas. In ploughing an alternative field, the Biden team, like the EU, realises that decarbonisation must be multilateral to ensure acceptable national economic harm.
Developing countries might obtain a respite from US (and EU) attempts to prevent an erosion of their competitiveness through tariffs. But this would be more difficult for Australia to achieve, notwithstanding that, in terms of actual decarbonisation costs incurred, Australia has spent twice as much per capita as the US and EU. Aside from the money wasted on high-cost wind and solar, the 20 per cent share of electricity supply that renewable energy subsidies have brought about has resulted in an unreliable supply. Indicative of this is that last year, because subsidised renewables supply energy when it is not needed, the electricity market actually saw negative prices for almost four per cent of the time. Such negative prices place further pressure on the economics of those electricity suppliers that are dependent on commercial interactions for their revenues and brings a snowball effect in undermining reliability.
In seeking a way out of the impasse created by changed US policies, Morrison says he wants Australia to achieve carbon neutrality by adopting yet to be discovered technology innovations. In this, he finds himself in the camp of NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean, the standard-bearer for the anti-fossil fuel lobby, who has announced “hydrogen will power the future”.
The Prime Minister has previously rebuked Kean but the best path forward may be to proclaim Australia’s green credentials in having funded the destruction of its previously reliable electricity supply industry and to announce a 2050 net-zero commitment. Achieving that goal should be accompanied by gradually eliminating subsidies and be made contingent on the alchemy of turning hydrogen into energy or other unlikely breakthroughs.
Obtaining EU/US acceptance of such an approach as policy-compliant will be among the most important policy challenges Australia faces in navigation the shoals emerging from the Biden victory. ‘ https://spectator.com.au/2021/01/morrison-runs-up-the-white-flag-on-carbon/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020210126%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020210126%20%20GK+CID_b5eae7b0b1d2707e7235df94a645b691&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=ScoMo%20runs%20up%20the%20white%20flag%20on%20carbon
George Christensen is an Australian Federal Politician from Queensland. He along with Craig Kelly are unique among those in Federal Parliament.
| ‘The greatest challenge approaching Australia and the West is that of dealing with Communist China’s growing ambition to become the dominant geopolitical force in the world. We could probably live with China being significantly economically superior (as we do with the USA) and we could even live with them brutalising their own citizens (as they do with Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong practitioners, Uighur Muslims and Hong Kong pro-democracy activists), albeit with ongoing expressions of concern. What we can’t live with is an authoritarian regime seeking to control us and our neighbours through economic and political means. If you don’t understand what I mean by that, then you need to read Professor Clive Hamilton’s book Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia. Prof Hamilton has provided a submission to the parliamentary inquiry I’m chairing that is looking into Australia’s trade and investment relations with China, in which he says: |
| The PRC is the world’s leading practitioner of “economic statecraft” — the use of economic power to coerce other nations to adopt political positions agreeable to Beijing. Beijing’s strategy of “killing the chickens to scare the monkeys” describes highly publicised attacks on individual countries or businesses to deter others. Onlookers are liable to say to themselves: “Thank goodness it’s not us. What must we do to make sure we aren’t next?” |
| That’s an apt description of how China is misusing its power and it’s a key part of the reason why recent changes and statements have been made by the Morrison Liberal National Government, which you will read about in this newsletter. If you want to have your say on these matters (and in my inquiry) you can still go to www.ChinaInquiry.com.au and fill in a survey form as well as write to my parliamentary committee that is conducting the inquiry. |
| The war on Western civilisation |
| Something has to be said about the black-armband brigade who took to our streets in the past few weeks, protesting about an event that occurred in the USA. As tragic as that event was, we don’t have the same poor race relations that appear to dog America, despite the claims of far left protesters who were on the streets in most capital cities of this country, gathering in masses despite public health warnings to the contrary. I lambasted them in federal parliament earlier this month on that front. Public health warnings aside, the people marching in the streets seem to have a vitriolic hatred for the very society, culture and heritage that has allowed them the freedom to march and the freedom to speak out against authority. The calls to take down statues of founding fathers and significant figures in our nation’s history (and the history of the West) and then to scrub out ‘offending’ cultural gems such as Gone with the Wind and an episode of Fawlty Towers led me to believe that these protesters are nothing more than a cultural Marxist version of the Taliban. Indeed, Christian commentator Bill Muehlenberg states: “This is a war on history and on Western civilisation. And what we have is a New Taliban that is fully behind it all.” You can read his full commentary here.’https://www.georgechristensen.com.au/campaigns/view-campaign/EPR0N-ADwX6RSzL8jEFj1inTsaXALEl5ypCYGixQOnLZG_V-TZDacl9BrBnq1IEFohh9wacTLLPR1lFQjr_2auXw95hpZ-3C |
Very few Australian Federal politicians speak out publicly on real issues that affect the people. Craig Kelly is one of the few and he is maligned continually by the government sponsored media such as ABC and SBS. These two Behemoth organizations are nothing but Leftist/Marxist/Communist/Socialist propaganda machines. Why the Australian Federal Government that says it is conservative would continue to support these two organizations is not understandable at all unless that Government really agrees with these two Leftist leaning organizations.
Anyway, back to Craig Kelly. This is the latest post from his Facebook page.
‘MORE SHOCKING INACCURATE & MISLEADING REPORTING Typical rubbish reporting; one-sided, bias, accusations without substantiation, and they failed to even to bother to contact me for a comment. If you are going to accuse someone of ‘’spreading misinformation’’, you have the obligation to; 1) Set out exactly what words were said,2) Explain why they words are incorrect and therefore are ‘misformation’3) Back up your claim with evidence. And SBS fail to do so in every respect. For it appears there is a new leftist authoritarian reporting style, where by if you say something they disagree with – they simply scream out ‘’misinformation’’ and ‘’conspiracy theory’’ as a way of avoiding setting out a reasoned argument – most of the time because one doesn’t exist. ITS THE SBS SPREADING FAKE INFORMATION So here, I’ll set out my argument of why it’s the SBS that are the ones guilty of spreading misinformation – not me. 1.1) THE WORDS SAID;SBS make the bald-faced assertion of Hydroxychloroquine that there is ‘’widespread evidence that it is not effective’’. 1.2) WHY THIS IS INCORRECT This is untrue. It’s fake news. It’s misleading. And unsurprisingly SBS fail to even try to substantiate such a false claim. The facts are, there are now a total of 192 studies (with 3,038 Authors) on the efficacy of HCQ to tackle Covid, and 150 of those studies found positive results for HCQ. But importantly, doctors advocating for HCQ (that’s doctors actually working on the frontlines) say that it should be combined with zinc – and it MUST be administered early (within the first 5 days of symptoms) to be effective. To date, there are 26 published studies on ‘early treatment’, all 26 of the studies – 100% of them found HCQ an effective treatment. So there is not a SINGLE SCRAP OF EVIDENCE that HCQ is ineffective when administered early as doctors recommend. Further, the chances having all 26 out of the 26 studies ALL finding that HCQ is effective, if it wasn’t – are one in 67 million. 1.3) THE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE Links are attached below each statement2.1) THE WORDS SAID ‘’Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack and Health Minister Greg Hunt on Tuesday refused to criticise Liberal MP Craig Kelly after he posted the results of a study that said forcing children to wear face masks was akin to “child abuse” on Facebook.’’‘’The German study, which has not been peer-reviewed, examined the impact of mask-wearing for children and allegedly found many suffered headaches and impaired learning.’’ SBS infer that this German study that I’ve posted is ‘’misleading covid information’’ – therefore I’m spreading misleading information. 2.2) WHY THIS IS INCORRECT SBS appear to be arguing that because the German study which examined the impact of mask-wearing for children “and allegedly” found many suffered headaches and impaired learning, ‘’has not yet been peer-reviewed’’ that’s it’s somehow ‘misleading’. Such an assertion is complete rubbish. SBS seem to misunderstand what ‘peer-reviewed’ means. Just because a study is peer-reviewed doesn’t make it correct, and just because a study is not peer-reviewed doesn’t make it misleading. If anyone wanted to criticise aspects of the study and argue its conclusions, and claim it’s therefore ‘misleading’ – that would be a debate. But they don’t, they offer nothing. They don’t say why they believe the study is wrong. They don’t reference any alternate study with contrary conclusions (because they don’t exist)No matter how you interpret this study, the findings are there, which show that enforcing a compulsory mask mandate on children, inflicts both physical & psychological harm upon them. And that’s not the only study of the adverse effects on forcing masks on children. This following is from a report published by the British Medical Journal by Dr.Carla Peeters, Prof. dr. Wim Vanden Berghe and Prof. dr. Mattias Desmet* Many people report claustrophobic experiences and difficulty getting sufficient oxygen due to the increased resistance to inhaling and exhaling. This can lead to an increased heart rate, nausea, dizziness and headaches and several other symptoms.* In an inquiry among Belgian students wearing mouth masks for one week, 16 % reported skin problems and 7 % sinusitis, Also problems with eyes and headaches and fatigue were frequently mentioned. * Furthermore, face masking can provoke an increase in stress hormones with a negative impact on immune resilience in the long term. * Facemasks prevent the mirroring of facial expressions, a process that facilitates empathetic connections and trust between pupils and teachers. This potentially leads to a significant increase in socio-psychological stress. During childhood and puberty the brain undergoes sexual and mental maturation through hormonal epigenetic reprogramming. * Several studies show that long-term exposure to socio-psychological stress leaves neuro-epigenetic scars that are difficult to cure in young people and often escalate into mental behavioural problems and a weakened immune system. * A recent study by the CDC concludes that in young adults (18-24 years), the level of anxiety and depression has increased by 63% (!) since the corona crisis. A quarter of them think about suicide. As a result, the use of antidepressants has increased by 25%. * Several researchers have shown a relationship between the increase in stress experiences and the risk of upper respiratory tract infections and mortality.https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3021/rr-6And the hypocrisy of these people – show me one study, just one, that has found that forcing Australian Children to wear masks for extended periods, stops the transmission of the virus and reduces hospitalisations or death ? 2.3) THE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-124394/v1https://www.sbs.com.au/…/health-experts-say-government…‘https://www.facebook.com/CraigKellyMP
This link will take you to the Leftist SBS article condemning Craig Kelly https://www.sbs.com.au/news/health-experts-say-government-mps-spreading-coronavirus-misinformation-are-a-threat-to-public-health?cid=newsapp%3Asocialshare%3Aother&fbclid=IwAR0Az47oODcH_9fhHcvc3sQhIlVHzuALs9Bxi3stLgivuk7Uyadd0mxS2p0
Here in Australia ‘Now that it’s high summer, you might see a lizard, sunning itself on a rock. Lizards don’t just get their energy from food, but also from the sun. Humans are warm-blooded creatures who generally get their energy from food, not solar-power. However, there are some cold-blooded creatures amongst us.
In the New South Wales parliament, the summer started with Environment Minister Matt Keane who, with little public warning and possibility of public debate, passing legislation for net zero emissions in NSW. This committed public funds—our money—to benefit green spiv renewable funds.
Bankers, lobbyists and Liberal moderate politicians have realised that the public will not only accept this, but actually thank them for it. Thank them for making power expensive and making them richer.
In a recent public statement, Keane was been positively evangelical about the need for the Liberal party to support renewable energy. But there were some very strange things that went along with this. He did not seem across some basic facts about renewables.
Does Keane realise that worldwide over 2,000 HELE coal powerplants are operated at present, or are in the development pipeline worldwide, and mostly in our geographic region? Or to translate, does he realise that Indo-Pacific nations, such as India and China, are investing in this cheap power generation, much of which is fuelled by Australian coal, to electrify a manufacturing powerhouse boom? Whilst at the very same time making any of our ‘clean’ energy commitments meaningless? Oddly, he seems not to have considered this in calculations.
Why is Minister Keane in public critical of energy entrepreneur Trevor St Baker as someone benefiting from these changes? St Baker bought one of NSW’s coal-fired power-stations for a mere $1 million now valued at over $700m – but because the state Liberal government was selling it. This is actually a story about the impropriety of actions of those in state government, in charge of our energy policy. It appears the NSW Liberal government classified the Vales Point power station as ‘worn out’ so it could be replaced, when it was worth alot more than that. Why would they do this? About $700m of public money thrown away. It appears they want to make us pay for a hugely more expensive and inefficient solar energy plants and their power — while ordinary electors have no choice but to pay for it.
Here we reach the intersection of incompetence and impropriety.
Many members of the political and media class of New South Wales are also aware of speculation surrounding factional ideological and personal alliances, astroturfing, and a revolving door between parliaments and plush corporate suites of high paid, high powered consultancy and lobbying roles. Mark Latham has alleged on Twitter a NSW Liberal MP told him that Kean’s net zero legislation “is really about setting up the finances of the Moderate Faction, on a permanent basis”. These cold-blooded animals are indeed solar-powered.
The most serpentine are the green spiv renewables funds. They are profiting by moving us to expensive, unreliable power. Here is their simple 3-step formula.
- Replace-plants. Our coal plants are being torn down so that we have to build new power plants. The more money it costs us to build them, the more the GSRFs get as their cut (as their fees are a proportion of the funds they arranged). For the GRSFs, the more expensive these plants, the better.
- Push-up prices. These expensive solar-power plants also make more expensive and unreliable electricity, and Aussies have no choice but to pay. For the GRSFs the margin gets juicer, on this higher amounts as electricity becomes more expensive.
- Privatise -plants. Next, governments tend to sell the asset to private investors. Investment banks love energy investments because it is very low risk. It is not hard to know that people will buy electricity. Often, these deals are protected even further from risk by government-guarantees. So the funds they arrange to buy these investments are comparatively cheap and then they get access to those juicy margins these new ritzy and expensive plants they have funded us to build.
Replace plants. Push-up prices. Privatise production. That’s the GSRF formula.
For us, it means extraordinarily expensive—and unreliable—electricity. For them, the merchant bankers and their allies, it means easy and growing money whilst doing very little. They are simply taking from us. It’s not unlike the energy a lizard gets from sitting on a rock.
It is cold-blooded. They are being predatory to our polity.
There are clear alternatives to solar-power. HELE Coal-fire is very popular elsewhere and makes a lot of sense with all the coal we export. Highly-efficient nuclear power, is also an obvious option. But these are too efficient and cheap to benefit these serpentine predators.
Now, there’s another feature of serpents. As we are told in the Bible, they tend to twist words–they make bad seem good, and good seem bad. This move to change our electricity production is moving our politics into dangerous territory, where a woke-elite alliance obscures poor policy. The financial-elite profit, while the woke-brigade power their political arguments into the mainstream. The woke-brigade even shaming and standing-over normal people who question it and the financial-elite who profit from it. While the financial-elite are profiteering from us, we are supposed to say ‘thank you’. The woke-elite alliance is doing bad and calling it good.
Expect to see plenty even more ritzy Range Rovers cruising around Sydney with ‘Stop Adani’ bumper-stickers.’https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/todays-cold-blooded-political-animals-are-solar-powered/
Craig Kelly is a member of the Australian Federal Government. He is a true conservative and posts quite a lot about Covid-19. This is the most recent from Craig’s Facebook page.
Of course Facebook is a Leftist giant and has to tell the viewer what they think is right and what is not right. Anyway, Facebook had this warning on Craig’s page. ‘This Page Posts About COVID-19 Visit the COVID-19 Info Center for updates and answers to questions you may have about coronavirus.‘
The following and including the chart is from Craig’s Facebook post.
Undoubtedly Craig Kelly doesn’t have an ambition to be on the front bench of Government. Good on ya, Craig! We need more Craig Kelly’s in the Australian Federal Parliament!
The China virus has changed the free world. Lockdowns, secrecy and snitching on others has been prominent features of this supposed pandemic. Here in Australia ‘There is no justification for the uniquely high-level of secrecy the Australian government has maintained throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A certain level of government secrecy is to be expected if you are dealing with national security or the military, but not during a public health emergency.
The response to coronavirus has impacted every aspect of our lives and liberties, and Australians have been compliant and rewarded our leaders with high approval ratings.
But, as the first interim report from the Senate select committee into the Australian Government’s handling of COVID-19 has found, Australians’ goodwill has been met with an alarming lack of transparency.
For example, out of the hundreds of meetings held by our key health body, the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, statements relating to just 65 meetings were made public.
And, despite repeated requests from the Senate committee, the government has refused to release information; such as meeting minutes, and dates on when strategic decisions were taken.
The committee’s recommendation that all past and future minutes of AHPPC meetings be released is sound — and the minimum that should be required.
However, they should also justify why they decided to keep so much information hidden behind the ‘Top Secret’ stamp.
As one expert witness to the committee said: “In relation to public health measures, the default position should be that all of these conditions and deliberations are made public.”
This is the standard adopted in other parts of the world. New Zealand released the modelling used to make their decisions early in the pandemic, and the UK publishes minutes and supporting documentation for each meeting of its Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
The concerning lack of government transparency was something highlighted in my analysis of Australia’s response to COVID-19.
Not only does the secrecy disrespect the ability of Australians to understand complicated information; it also limits the opportunities to canvas a range of solutions.
Australia took the unusual step of suspending parliament and limiting pandemic decision–making to a small group. This prevented our elected representatives from debating the strategy adopted to combat COVID-19. And keeping most of the health advice secret further hinders the ability to debate and scrutinise the government’s response.
But, unfortunately, since we first heard about COVID-19, debating the response to the virus has been discouraged.
Social media companies quickly appointed themselves the arbiters of scientific truth, with YouTube introducing a policy to ban any ‘misinformation’ about COVID-19. Although such a policy is superficially appealing, there are unintended consequences and overreach — as with all censorship.
Popular, mainstream British talkRADIO had their YouTube channel taken down earlier this week for violating the video platform’s COVID policy. The video in question was a debate between host Julia Hartley-Brewer and a former president of the National Education Union about school closures.
As is often the case after social media cancellations, their channel was reinstated after a backlash. But YouTube has also shut down accounts and taken down videos from prominent health experts such as Professor Karol Sikora, a former WHO adviser, and current Dean of the University of Buckingham’s medical school.
Many will support these moves and claim taking down ‘misinformation’ is necessary to save lives.
This is a furphy.
Firstly, no one should want a YouTube moderator to decide what is and is not scientific truth. Despite calls to follow ‘The Science’ of the pandemic, information is always changing. As the NSW health minister says in nearly every single press conference: we are learning more about this virus all the time and we will adapt our strategy as we receive new information.
This is the right attitude. To delete so–called misinformation because it does not conform to ‘The Science’ is shutting down scientific debate and preventing the exploration of ideas.
Secondly, like most big events, the pandemic is surrounded by no shortage of conspiracy theories. If information is taken down, or not released, people quite rightly ask why. And if the question is not satisfactorily answered, the silence can prompt opportunists to fill in the blanks.
Whatever your thoughts on how governments around the world have handled the pandemic, whether you believe lockdowns are appropriate, or that there has been government overreach, dissenting voices should be allowed to speak.
Questioning the policy of lockdowns or any other COVID suppression or elimination strategy is not a threat.
However, there is a threat in keeping information secret and branding anyone who questions ‘The Science’ of the pandemic a dangerous heretic.
We have sacrificed a lot in the name of COVID. Let us not give up on our open democracy and free inquiry as well.’https://spectator.com.au/2021/01/why-the-pandemic-secrecy-and-censorship/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FLAT%20%202020011%20%20AL&utm_content=FLAT%20%202020011%20%20AL+CID_b0b9c0a38f4aaf348ef1cd7e819be9e2&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Monica%20Wilkie
New Zealand is ripe for taking by the CCP so the following is interesting.
‘New Zealand is offering to step in to try and resolve the trade feud between Australia and China. The country’s new Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said she is willing to negotiate a truce between Australia and China amid a tense diplomatic relationship. New Zealand will host next year’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and Ms Mahuta said it presented an opportunity to bring both parties to the table.’https://www.9news.com.au/world/new-zealand-offers-to-mediate-australia-and-china-dispute/f3f12f92-19a2-428c-8a94-2a563f2e76bd
Craig Kelly is one of the few Australian Federal politicians willing to speak the truth! Oh, and by the way he is hated on both sides of politics.
‘If (and that’s a very big IF) it is prudent to set out to inject the entire Australian population with one or more of the covid vaccines – what level of information is the public entitled to know about the risks ?One school of thought, that appears to be advocated by Labor’s Shadow Health Minister Chris Bowen (given his name-calling and personal attacks on me for posting factual data from US Center for Disease Control) is that the public should be treated like mushrooms. Just line up, roll-up your sleeve, don’t ask questions, don’t think for yourself – leave all the thinking to us experts, for we know better. The alternate, is that he have a fully informed debate, free from censorship will all the facts in the table, including the pros and cons of the vaccines and the option of Ivermectin. I believe in the latter. That’s why I’m posting a link to this report, published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice which warns that there is a; ‘’specific risk that COVID‐19 vaccines could worsen disease upon exposure to challenge or circulating virus’’. And; ‘’Given the strong evidence that ADE (antibody‐dependent enhancement) is a non‐theoretical and compelling risk for COVID‐19 vaccines and the ‘laundry list’ nature of informed consents, disclosure of the specific risk of worsened COVID‐19 disease from vaccination calls for a specific, separate, informed consent form and demonstration of patient comprehension in order to meet medical ethics standards. The informed consent process for ongoing COVID‐19 vaccine trials does NOT appear to meet this standard.’’https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ijcp.13795I believe that public needs to be informed of the quantum of this risk with empirical evidence – or honestly told; ‘’we don’t know, and are only guessing what the risk might be’’.’https://www.facebook.com/CraigKellyMP/photos/a.251794581681850/1714483885412905/
