Australian Politics
Was the Covid cure worse than the disease?
A lot of Australians are dying. Many politely say: We need to know why. …but really now, how long must polite company continue this faux naivety?
The Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS), is the only body in Australia that undertook the task to investigate why Australian Excess Deaths continue to equate to about two jumbo jet crashes each week, and every week, since early 2021. That is two jumbo jets of dead Australians a week.
Why did AMPS step up thus?
Because the Australian Senate voted down a motion last year to hold hearings into why Australia has been experiencing this surge in Excess Deaths. Again this week, Labor and the Greens voted against investigating why Australia is experiencing continued excess mortality that began early 2021. Our elected officials turned their backs on us.
You see, the two major federal political parties were instrumental in motivating state governments to lock down Australians, confining essentially millions of people to their homes, with the only hope of release back into the general community being dependent on receiving a Covid vaccine, all to be recorded, of course, on vaccine passports. Millions of others had no choice – no jab meant no job. With bills to pay, mortgages to service, and kids to feed, many surrendered to this State-sponsored coercion.
With no equivalent Bill of Rights to protect the Australian people, and the almost complete abolition of human rights, many among the millions desperate to regain their fundamental freedoms succumbed to this disgusting and brutal authoritarianism. Australia’s political overlords had successfully revived our early penal colony history, where throughout 2020, 2021, and 2022, we became ruled by physical force and rubber bullets.
And it worked – by the end of 2021, somewhere between 85-95 per cent of Australians had fallen victim to the many tactics employed by our federal and state governments, to receive the ‘safe and effective’ gene-based injections.
Now, a lot of Australians are dying. People are asking, why?
To be clear, in 2020 Australia experienced below average All-Cause Mortality, despite apparently the presence of a highly infectious and deadly virus said to be circulating amongst us. In fact, deaths due to respiratory disease were 16.2 per cent lower, while influenza and pneumonia deaths were 36 per cent lower. Does that read like a pandemic to you? Covid deaths didn’t even break into our top 10 leading causes of death, and were at 832, far below the more than 3,000 suicides. So low were Covid deaths that Australia did not appear to have data to support the urgent cries from politicians, here and globally, to the effect that we all were facing imminent death from SARS-CoV-2. In truth, we faced and experienced a political theatre.
It is our opinion that this is why the Australian Senate continues to look the other way, now that it finds itself confronted by the fallout from a theatre of the absurd, the violent, and the dishonest.
In October 2023, AMPS released the investigative findings of over 30 science and medical authors into Australia’s Excess Deaths. In brief, we suspect that Australia may be suffering from an iatrogenic disaster potentially caused by the uptake of Covid vaccines.
The book is simply titled out of respect for the dead – Too Many Dead: An Inquiry into Australia’s Excess Mortality.
Some of the generous co-authors include Associate Professor Peter Doshi, Edward Dowd, Phillip Altman PhD, Andrew Madry PhD, Geoff Pain PhD, Wilson Sy PhD, Dr Monique O’Connor, Conni Turni PhD and Astrid Lefringhausen PhD, Jessica Rose PhD, Dr Tess Lawrie, Professor Norman Fenton, Dr Clare Pain, and Dr Aseem Malhotra, together with another 21 science and medical doctors of great distinction.
To say no stone was left unturned by such an esteemed ensemble of scientific and medical expertise would be an understatement. As the book notes:
This book has been assembled by an aggregation of highly-qualified and experienced doctors and researchers who take their ethics seriously. Here, information has not been withheld, or, worse, blocked.
AMPS did also fairly invite Australian medical regulators to contribute their analysis and synthesis of the Australian data, where it was hoped they would call upon the over 3,500 international case studies casting extreme doubt over the integrity of the Covid vaccines. Instead of a comprehensive contribution, there was silence; no response was provided. In correspondence to a previous letter, former head of the Department of Health, Mr Brendan Murphy, sent a rather brief letter, which read in part:
Regarding excess mortality statistics, there is no credible evidence to suggest that excess mortality is related to Covid vaccination either in Australia or internationally.
‘No credible evidence’?
In pondering these words from Australia’s (former) chief health bureaucrat, Too Many Dead observes:
For three years Australia succumbed to the will of corporate ideologues in big pharma, big media, big finance, and big government who seem to prioritise profit over people. This enslavement, and it is nothing less, may help to explain these high excess death rates being witnessed now at more than 15 per cent above baseline mortality. Put another way, AMPS and all ethical and informed doctors are horrified at the ten or twenty or thirty thousand excess deaths in this country in the time since March, 2021. Australian and other Western data show a mass casualty event; peculiarly, the higher figures are occurring in the countries that are highly injected, but our political and medical authorities seem to think there is nothing worth scrutiny. Now, with this book, it has been probed. This investigation has had to cut straight across the lockstep media messaging, the medical misinformation and the censorship.
Too Many Dead shall be seen through the years as a book of the age of Covid, a historic document gathering together meticulous facts that cause governments everywhere fear for what they have wrought and brought upon their people, death, and the pestilence of a thousand forms of injury brought and wrought by their ‘safe and effective’ solution to a non-pandemic.
I commend the authors of Too Many Dead for bravely stepping into the pages of history bearing the torch of Truth.
And to you good readers on far away shores I commend Too Many Dead as a systematic and disciplined account, and blueprint, for beginning the same journey into your Truth, for what has befallen every nation that opted to secure benefits for big pharma first, before the peace and health of their people … their mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, and our innocent infants.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/the-dying-of-down-under/
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Australia is on track for a steep fall in net migration after federal officials turned away thousands of overseas students who applied to start courses this month, bringing student visa grants down by 20 per cent in the biggest shift in two decades.
The cut to the education program is the biggest single factor in driving the total migrant intake down to 375,000 this financial year and putting it on course for 250,000 the following year.
The government’s migration strategy unveiled last year has imposed stronger English-language tests on students and requires them to prove they are genuine students before they enter the country, while making it harder for them to stay if they do not find jobs that help fill a skills shortage.
The government remains open to more controversial measures, such as a cap on student numbers or higher fees on their visa applications.
The cuts to student visas are not being felt across all universities. The biggest impact is at private colleges with low ratings for visa approvals and some universities are also writing to overseas applicants to cancel their applications because they will fail a tougher visa test put in place last year.
Most of the country’s leading universities are not seeing any big fall in overseas student numbers, the latest results show, because they have not fallen foul of the stricter tests within the department.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil sent a formal instruction to the Department of Home Affairs last year, known as Ministerial Direction 107, to tell officials to put a priority on student visa applications for universities with a good track record and to give the lowest priority to those for institutions with a history of problems.
This means the priority takes into account the track record of all overseas students at each institution so they are given a low ranking if they have had a large number of visa refusals, fraudulent applications or students who overstay their visas.
All the Group of Eight universities are in the “tier one” category in this new system, while the “tier three” group at the lowest level of the system is mainly made up of private vocational education colleges.
Australia has more than 650,000 overseas students and an increasing number of them are prolonging their stay by applying to do a second course, with 150,000 of the total being on their second student visa.
The results from the department show that overseas students are being turned away in record numbers because the visa grant rate has been driven down to 80 per cent, the lowest since records began in 2005.
In a rare fall, the student visa grants in December were lower than in November – a sign of fewer arrivals for the coming academic year – and are 20 per cent below the same period last year.
The outcome shows the department is bringing international student visa grants down from 370,000 last financial year to 290,000 this year and believes there is a reasonable chance the outcome will be slightly lower.
The new migration figures provide the first outcomes from the dramatic shift last year when the Coalition accused Labor of planning a “big Australia by stealth” and the government vowed to lower the intake and crack down on dubious visa claims.
Opposition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan criticised O’Neil for presiding over the biggest influx of overseas students as well as a record migrant intake last year.
“Labor says they don’t want a Big Australia but under the Albanese Government 900,000 people will arrive over two years and 1.625 million will arrive over five.”
O’Neil said the country could not sustain the big increase in migration after the borders were opened at the end of the pandemic. “Migration is too high and our government has taken action to bring it back to normal levels,” she said.
“The early signs are that these changes are working. We are seeing sharp decreases in numbers. This is led by deep cuts in the areas of higher education, where we have unfortunately seen widespread integrity issues.”
Another key factor in driving the migration intake down is a special program called the Pandemic Event Visa, which was introduced by the previous government with no fees and no skills test and attracted more than 100,000 people.
Labor closed the pandemic program to new applicants last year and expects 60 per cent to leave the country and the remainder to shift to other visas because they have skills that are in demand and jobs that pay above the $70,000 salary threshold for approval.
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How the radical minority tail is wagging the Labor dog
Whether it is the union movement, the vicious Green-Left, Palestinian migrants who support Hamas, or just run-of-the-mill fringe dwellers, the Albanese government is at their service.
Forget the views of most Australians as demonstrated by the Voice referendum, small businesses struggling to survive, pensioners and people on fixed incomes who can’t afford to turn on the airconditioning. Labor just isn’t listening.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s preferred option is to pander to minority activists.
Voters who thought they cast their ballot for a local Labor candidate are now finding that their representatives put unions first, nutty environmentalists second, and mardi gras and transsexual enthusiasts third.
Middle of the road Australians who show common sense and not-so radical opinions don’t get a look in at federal or state levels.
In the UK, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has backtracked on his promised $54 billion Green Prosperity Plan which included a government-owned green-energy power company.
Here, Energy and Climate Change minister Chris Bowen hysterically promotes a renewable Net Zero fantasy currently estimated to cost at least $1.5 trillion by the end of the decade and $7 trillion to $9 trillion by 2060.
Further, his narcissistic delusion denies any role for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest and least environmentally destructive source of energy. Hard Left ideology, not science, drives Labor.
Labor’s new IR Bill supported by hard-Left ACT Senator David Pocock, the erratic senators Lydia Thorpe and Jacqui Lambie, cripple productivity.
The biggest business in Canberra is the public service, why should Pocock or Labor worry about the nation?
With less than 10 per cent of the private sector workforce in the union movement, Labor is doing everything it can to pump up the tyres of an institution which should be irrelevant in the modern economy.
The big superannuation funds, controlled by former Labor politicians and union heavies, are in on the joke splashing cash on unions which in turn push their government to lift the rate of super contributions to go into the funds which swell Labor’s election coffers, and round and round the money goes.
The same with the manner in which Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Victorian and NSW premiers bow to the plainly genocidal Islamist thinking to appease Muslims in a handful of electorates.
Meanwhile, our “handsome boy” PM sucks up to Chinese supreme leader Xi while his Communist Party runs a legal system which takes our citizens hostage to influence our foreign policy.
George Orwell, or his first wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy (who worked for the UK Ministry of Information’s Censorship division in WWII), invented the word “doublethink” to describe the acceptance of two contradictory beliefs as a result of indoctrination.
The Left’s domination of our education system from kindergarten to university has made many Australians doublethinkers.
No thinking homosexual could possibly support a regime which criminalises gays and punishes them with whippings, imprisonment or summary execution by hanging, throwing them off rooftops or bashing them to death, while Israel offers them sanctuary as refugees from such torture.
Why we should reject blind loathing of ignorant minorities
Labor’s acolytes in the law may wring their hands about social justice and diversity but, to the punters, the housing shortage needs to be addressed, crime rates need action (particularly those involving teens and younger), and there are the perennial problems faced by those Aboriginal Australians who remain living in remote communities which have no economic foundation.
Faced with an awful axis of evil in China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, our government has run down our defences and is now intent on ensuring we are economically uncompetitive internationally and divided domestically.
Politics drives Labor, not the national interest, and we all suffer because of this short-term power grab.
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2.5m Qld workers to lose workplace health and safety protections
A Parliamentary hearing has been told that 2.5 million Queensland workers are about to lose their workplace health and safety protections in a move to strengthen registered Labor unions that fund the ALP.
A Bill before Parliament seeks to tweak laws that I believe will rob workplace health and safety representatives in independent unions of the powers to represent workers in health and safety matters.
In my opinion it is a terrible attack on workers who face financial hardship if they find themselves ensnared in health or safety matters.
It means 87 per cent of Queensland’s workforce will have to pay thousands of dollars for a lawyer for representation should they become embroiled in a health or safety issue. In my view, workers who choose to belong to an independent union are being discriminated against. So, too, are tens of thousands who choose not to be in any union.
It’s bizarre. It appears the Miles government is seeking to turn the workforce into a union collective, and to hell with those who object.
Is it not a basic human right to be treated equally before the law, irrespective of whether you’re in a registered or independent union?
The move is shrouded in secrecy. The Bill was slipped quietly into the House in the dying days of Parliament late last year and follows recommendations from an expert panel that withheld the names of people who made submissions and what they said. Worryingly, the new laws also seek to expand the powers of the unions in demanding work stoppages for alleged safety breaches.
Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace told Parliament the Work Health and Safety Act review was conducted by three independent reviewers: Craig Allen, former deputy director-general of the Office of Industrial Relations; Charles Massy, a barrister specialising in industrial relations and employment law; and Deirdre Swan, former deputy president of the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission.
“A total of 51 written submissions were received,” the trio wrote in their report. “Stakeholders who provided submissions included employer and industry representatives, registered unions, legal representative associations, government departments, businesses and individuals.
“All submissions were treated as confidential. Where the content of a particular submission is referenced in this report, the authors have not been identified.” Why?
Grace told the House the review panel recommended changes to strengthen the operation of the health and safety representative framework. “It does this by clarifying and better integrating the role of the health and safety representative in the workplace,” she said. “The bill requires employers to be proactive in supporting the formation of work groups and the election of health and safety representatives.’’
Explanatory notes tabled in Parliament made it appear the aim was to crush the independents.
“To achieve its policy objectives, the Bill will amend the Workplace Health and Safety Act (in) excluding other entities such as: associations of employees or independent contractors; other entities that represent or are purporting to represent the industrial interests of the worker; entities that demand or receive a fee from such bodies; and individuals connected with excluded bodies. Excluding associations of employees or independent contractors which are not registered unions …”
Member for Southern Downs James Lister says the ALP will leave workers in a precarious place.
“This Bill is another naked move by the Labor Party to reward their financial and political benefactors in the old trade union movement,” Lister told me, speaking as an MP, and not as an Education, Employment and Training committee member.
“It also seeks to disadvantage members of the likes of the Nurses’ Professional Association of Queensland, and the Teachers’ Professional Association of Queensland, and other independent unions, whose better service and cheaper fees have seen thousands of members ditch the ALP-affiliated unions.’’
Lister said Queensland workers were happier being represented by independent unions and associations “without seeing their hard-earned dollars being handed to Labor by traditional ALP-affiliated unions”.
He added: “I think this bill will disadvantage millions of Queensland workers, whose workplace health and safety would be entrusted to a monopoly of union bosses, instead of as now where employees have freedom of choice.’’
Graeme Haycroft, the creator of the key independent unions that won’t align with the ALP, said the new law especially disadvantaged nurses and teachers.
“The Bill seeks specifically to deny representation to all workers on workplace health and safety matters except those who are current or existing members of a registered trade union,” he said in evidence to the Parliamentary hearing.
“It is really about the denial of equal access to justice.
“Those who contribute to the ALP supporting unions get it; those who do not in practice cannot access it.’’
Haycroft is chief of the Red Union Support Hub, the umbrella organisation for independent unions.
“This bill seeks to deny equal access to the law,” he said.
“There were 2,879,746 employed workers in Queensland as at last December. There were 371,815 members of registered unions.
“This Bill effectively says that the only way you can access workplace health and safety legislation protections is by being an existing member of a registered trade union.
“This means that those 2.5 million workers who are not members of these registered trade unions cannot access the workplace health and safety legislation.
He added: “What happened to the ALP being the political party of the worker, and 2.5 million of the workers in Queensland are now going to be denied access to the full protection?
“The only workers the ALP seem to want are those who are prepared to fund the ALP.’’
Haycroft also questioned the higher fees charged by the Labor-linked Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union and the Queensland Teachers’ Union. The members of his independent unions paid $450. “By comparison, the QNMU charges $762. ”
“We believe that if the Red Union had 60,000 nurses, we would be able to deliver the service profitably for about $200 per annum … “Yet the QNMU charges $762.’’
He sees the new laws as “an attempt to punish the nearly 15,000 nurses and teachers who have already left a registered union because they did not want to contribute their membership money to the ALP.”
He added: “It should be a free choice. Let the worker decide who represents them. “If they want to pay more and have money go to the ALP, great. If they do not, they can join something else or not join anything.”
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