The coverup of vacine side-effects takes a life

She and her family knew she had vulnerabilities from pre-existing conditions but were not told of the vaccine side effects that combined with those conditions to kill her

The death of a young woman in her 20s after she received a Covid-19 vaccine could progress to a full coronial inquest.

Coroner Catherine Fitzgerald told the involved parties that she would tighten the reins on expert reports being filed to the court, as mountains of medical information piled up.

Natalie Boyce, 21, died in March 2022 at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, five weeks after receiving a Moderna vaccine booster.

Lawyers for Ms Boyce's family opposed Moderna's request on the grounds the doctor saw the young woman for lupus four years before she died.

Natalie Boyce died from myocarditis. She spent the last three weeks of her life unconscious.

Ms Boyce was studying at Deakin University. She spent the last three weeks of her life unconscious. Her death certificate lists myocardial infarction with subacute myocarditis as the cause.

When she was 15, Ms Boyce was diagnosed with an uncommon blood clotting disorder that affects about one-in-2000 people.

Ms Boyce's mother, Deborah Hamilton, previously told a parliamentary inquiry that she believed her daughter would be alive if she had not received the Covid-19 vaccine booster.

'Had we known that there were risks there would have been no way that I would have allowed Natalie to receive another vaccine and I know that she would not have had it either,' Ms Hamilton told MPs in Canberra in 2023.

The day after getting the Moderna booster, Ms Boyce fainted, had a fever, stomach pain and vomiting. Her condition deteriorated over trips to doctors and several different hospitals.

Ms Hamilton has blamed both the vaccine mandates and 'medical negligence' from Victoria's health system.

Ms Boyce was encouraged by her part-time employer to get vaccinated and required a vaccination to go to the university campus.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13642351/Natalie-Boyce-died-Covid-vaccine.html

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Cleo Smith update: New photos show insight into her life after being kidnapped

The family of Cleo Smith have shared a miracle update on their little girl three years after she was kidnapped.

Cleo made international headlines when she was snatched from her sleeping bag as she slept alongside her mother, stepfather and baby sister inside a tent at the Blowholes campsite, about 960km north of Perth, Western Australia, on October 16, 2021.

A mammoth police operation was launched for Cleo, who was four years old at the time, which led to her dramatic rescue 18 days later.

Now aged seven, Cleo has adjusted to a normal life following the horrific abduction and intense media scrutiny.

A collection of photos, shared to Instagram on Wednesday by 60 Minutes Australia showed a beaming Cleo enjoying life with her family.

The photos received an overwhelming response from social media users all around the world, with many sharing well wishes for the family and for Cleo.

Police smashed down the locked door of a house in Carnarvon - just 3km from her family's home - at 12.46am on November 3, 2021, freeing the little girl.

Cleo was held captive by Terrence Darrell Kelly and locked alone in a bedroom of the home.

Terence Kelly was arrested and subsequently charged with one count of forcibly taking a child under 16.



Her captor, one of Australia's "First Nations" people

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced on April 5, 2023, to 13-and-a-half years behind bars. The sentence was backdated to his arrest in November 2021. Kelly will be 48 by the time he's eligible for parole in May 2032.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13645033/Cleo-Smith-update-New-photos-insight-life-kidnapped.html

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Top doctor hits out at plans to introduce a 'sin tax' on sugary drinks in Australia

Nick Coatsworth has hit out at a proposed tax on sugary treats arguing that '$8 cans of coke' will only punish the poor and fail to fix the nation's obesity crisis.

A recent Senate report recommended a 20 per cent tax on unhealthy products such as soft drinks in order to curb surging obesity rates, particularly in children.

But the prominent doctor, who became the face of Australia's Covid vaccine campaign as the national deputy chief medical officer, argues that implementing a so-called 'sin tax' is misguided and echoes the draconian government overreach seen during the pandemic.

'It's hard to escape the conclusion that sin taxes are proposed by rich people looking down on the behaviour of the sinful masses,' Dr Coatsworth told Daily Mail Australia.

'Can you imagine a can of Coke costing $8? Is that what it will take to reduce consumption?

'In regional and indigenous communities I predict it will reduce consumption by precisely zero.'

He noted that while governments can legitimately regulate things such as age of consumption of products such as alcohol and penalise people who sell harmful products to children, it should be cautious in applying such restrictions to adults.

'The recent trend to is to make penalty and prohibition the first choice and not the last resort, and this is leading to bad policy choices,' Dr Coatsworth said.

'If you're struggling to make an income and support your family there is much less capacity to make good health choices, and the 'sins' help you get through a tough day.

'A sin tax that does nothing to lift people into a position that they can make positive health choices.'

Dr Coatsworth also warned there are limits in trying to legislate people into being healthier.

'We've just been through a very disturbing episode in our lives where we criminalised or harshly penalised legitimate actions of citizens in the name of public health,' he said referring to the Covid period.

'As a basic principle public health should operate by consent of the community not by coercion.

'This applies as much to current debates as it did to Covid.'

The Australian government already imposes similar taxes on tobacco products and raises the excise every year to make it prohibitively expensive. It currently stands at about 75 per cent of the sale price.

Although the rate of smoking has decreased from above 20 per cent in 2001 to 11 per cent now, illegal vaping rates have soared along with the illicit tobacco trade.

'It's a law of diminishing returns,' Dr Coatsworth said.

'Tobacco excise had climbed so high that a black market has blossomed.'

'It's clear that the Australian Federal Police can't stop illicit tobacco coming into the country, let alone illegal vapes and it's creating a problem for state policing who now have to deal with the emergence of organised crime.

'It's bizarre that the same people who acknowledge that a 'war on drugs' is the wrong way to tackle hard drug use passionately declare that a 'war on vapes' is likely to work.'

Despite Dr Coatsworth's opposition to raising taxes on unhealthy food and drink, he does agree that there is an 'obesity crisis in Australia and that diabetes is an enormous cost-burden for our health system'.

'There is a big gap between agreeing with that and asserting that sugar taxes will have a meaningful impact on either,' he said.

'The classic behaviour of the activist is to surf a moral panic and then criticise an opponent as being an enemy of the public good.

'Labelling someone as being an enemy of public health is a very effective way of silencing debate.'

Earlier this month a Senate report recommended the federal government implement a levy on sugar-sweetened beverages and look to international examples to fix prices.

It pointed to the British example of 'tiered tax' where the levy grows with the amount of sugar in a product.

The Parliamentary Budget Office estimated applying a 20 per cent tax on all sugar sweetened drinks would bring in about $1.4billion annually

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13638369/Nick-Coatsworth-sin-tax.html

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PsiQuantum to help shape Qld university offerings

Queensland’s biggest universities have struck a skills partnership with PsiQuantum that gives the Silicon Valley startup a say in the direction their science, technology and maths courses take.

The memorandum of understanding, which comes as the company looks to secure a pipeline of talent for its attempts to build the world’s first fault tolerant quantum computer, also opens the door to joint research projects with the universities.

Five universities, together accounting for some 110,000 students, are represented in the consortium: the University of Queensland, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, the University of South Queensland and the University of the Sunshine Coast.

Announced on Tuesday, the university and research tie-up with PsiQuantum is the first partnership to emerge from the $940 million joint investment by the federal and Queensland governments.

The investment, which includes $370 million in equity, has been mired in controversy since it was announced in April, with key details still to emerge almost three months on.

Under the new partnership, the five universities will work with PsiQuantum to create targeted educational programs that develop the skills required for quantum computing and other advanced technology industries.

PsiQuantum will have input in the development of “study modules, courses, degree, lectures and industry training”, including at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The programs will also provide “pathways for traditional STEM careers like engineering and software development into the quantum sector”, allowing upskilling of “diverse scientists” to take place.

Roles in the company’s sights include quantum applications engineers, software developers and other technical lab staff, as well as more traditional roles like mechanical, optical and electrical engineers.

“This collaboration will provide a framework for academic institutions in Australia to offer opportunities for academic, postgraduate, and undergraduate placements that will attracts and retain leading Australian and global talent,” PsiQuantum said.

The company has also previously promised PhD positions, mentoring and internship opportunities, although they were not included in Tuesday’s announcement.

PsiQuantum chief executive and co-founder Jeremy O’Brien said the partnership will “help ensure that Australia is developing the necessary skills and driving research to continue leading this field for decades to come”.

Professor O’Brien developed the beginning of the photonics-based quantum approach being pursued by PsiQuantum at the University of Queensland. The approach uses uses photons as a representation of qubits instead of electrons.

University of Queensland vice-chancellor Deborah Terry said the university will “work with PsiQuantum across the education spectrum – from schools, through TAFE, to universities– to prepare our students for future jobs in quantum and advanced technologies.

“Our researchers are also incredibly excited to explore and find projects of common interest with PsiQuantum, taking full advantage of this unique opportunity,” she said.

https://www.innovationaus.com/psiquantum-to-help-shape-qld-uni-offerings/

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