Community News – August 2025

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With the Antipodean spring right around the corner, now is a great time to re-activate your efforts on behalf of reason, community, and Australia. Two major upcoming ASF events will bring you the opportunity to connect with like-minded others, and learn about and contribute to what ASF is doing. Details below:

1 – 10 September “Bring-a-Friend” Movie Night: Come join the Sydneyside ASF community in Moore Park to watch the documentary film Covid Collateral on the big screen at Hoyts Cinema 7 in Fox Studios – followed by a Q&A session with four professionals who personally experienced the suppression, denigration and gaslighting during covid times that are portrayed in the movie. We can’t wait to see you there! Get your tickets here – discounts available for bulk purchase, to encourage you to bring along friends or family who are on the fence about what happened during covid:

2 – 21-23 November are the dates of ASF’s third annual Progress through Science and Freedom conference! A joyful fixture on the calendar of freethinkers across Australia, our conference this year promises more of what you have come to love and expect from ASF, plus several innovations – including a session on Indigenous welfare, and an opportunity for freethinking scholars to present and receive feedback in a traditional conference-style session on research that would be unlikely to garner favour with mainstream conferences or journal editors. This year we have also adopted a more tiered pricing schedule, enabling both companies and individuals with means to show their support by sponsoring our conference (full details on our event website; please share this opportunity with potential corporate or individual sponsors you may know). Check out our amazing list of speakers, with more added each week, and get your tickets early so you don’t miss out – we expect the conference to sell out this year:

***SPECIAL NOTE for academics and researchers interested in presenting work at the conference:  Submit your abstract following the instructions here by 1 September!

A powerful initiative going public this month is the Fertility Roundtable organised by Ros Nealon-Cook, co-founder of the Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration, featuring specialists from around the world discussing the impact in their areas of practice of the mRNA shots (moderated by ASF’s Gigi Foster; full video here; trailer here) Cafe Locked Out is running a multi-part series interviewing the participants in this video; the first of these instalments, featuring Ros Nealon-Cook and Gigi Foster, is available here. This important video has been heavily shadow-banned. All assistance in disseminating it – even to your own healthcare providers – would be greatly appreciated.

Other current initiatives in which you can participate include the Voters’ Voice tool put together by the Aligned Council of Australia to push back against the WHO’s over-reach; and the MySeflReliance Freedom Summit coming up at the end of October in Kenthurst, NSW, organised by Kelli Wilkins.

Two rallies are planned for 31 August (in capital cities; about immigration) and 13 September (in Sydney; about digital ID and surveillance), respectively, about which the Aligned Council of Australia has the following wise words of advice to offer:


If You Choose to Attend

Australians have the right to protest, the right to congregate, and the right to free speech. If you do take part, here are ways to represent ACA’s values constructively:

  • Be recognisably Australian — wear the flag, or your favourite national sports team’s shirt.
  • Use simple, positive messages that show common ground:
    • “Fair go for every Aussie.”
    • “United, not divided.”
    • “Together for freedom.”
    • “Australia belongs to all of us.”
  • Stay peaceful and respectful towards fellow citizens and police alike.

You may find the ACA’s Resources Page useful in your efforts to represent your views to others in the community.


In academia this month, we have seen the customary litany of research investigating the various side effects of the covid shots (e.g. here, here, here (focussing on the deficiencies in the drug approval process), and here), while Raphael Lataster and Robert Malone have also penned an article laying out exactly which claims of “covid skeptics” have been proven accurate by the recent report of the US congressional subcommittee looking into the covid era (they enumerate 25 such claims). It makes for vindicating reading, though covid policy is a topic on which some of us wish we hadn’t been right. Raphael also put out this article recently, Part 2 of a 3-part series debunking allegedly scientific studies published previously whose authors concluded that the covid shots were, in various ways, a perfectly fine if not totally awesome idea. We congratulate the leadership team at the Journal of Independent Medicine – publisher of several of the pieces linked above – for their intrepid work so far in what has become a sea of pseudo-scientific research issuing forth from mainstream journals.

Overseas, the US Food and Drug Administration has rescinded its emergency use authorisation for the covid shots, under RFK Jr’s leadership as Health and Human Services Secretary. In addition to the recent kerfuffle at the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention that is just one amongst many current dramas keeping US public health leadership busy (another is this recent lawsuit), a collaboration between US and Japanese groups has produced a data resource described here that contains millions of matched records from Japan of covid injections and deaths. If you’ve got time on your hands and have some statistical analysis skills, we urge you to check out these data. In New Zealand, meanwhile, the Covid-19 Royal Commission has declined to use its powers to compel four key figures in New Zealand’s covid policy response to give evidence. If you don’t like this, you may wish to consider signing the petition here.

You may wish to consider the books listed below, out this month, for your Christmas wish list or those of friends and family:

Finally, in song this month you may enjoy this and in film this.

I look forward to seeing you at one of our exciting upcoming events, and I hope the other opportunities described above to get involved with initiatives aligned with ASF’s mission resonate with you. Until next month, stay strong, be joyful, and keep going, for all our sakes. You are not alone!

Gigi Foster

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  • Gigi Foster (Professor, UNSW School of Economics; BA Ethics, Politics and Economics, PhD Economics) works in diverse fields including education, social influence, time use, lab experiments, behavioural economics, and Australian policy. Named 2019 Young Economist of the Year by the Economic Society of Australia, she publishes in both specialised and cross-disciplinary outlets, and her innovative teaching was awarded a 2017 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. She has filled numerous roles of service to the profession and engages heavily on economic matters with the Australian community, as one of Australia’s leading economics communicators, in the media and at live events. She is co-author of The Great Covid Panic (Brownstone Institute 2021, with Paul Frijters and Michael Baker) and Do Lockdowns and Border Closures Serve the “Greater Good”? (Connor Court 2022, with Sanjeev Sabhlok).

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