As the end of another year PCE (post-covid-era) draws to a close, it is heartening to recall all that we have accomplished. Four or even three years ago, the community of people in Australia alert to the need to take back oversight of our systems of governance and claim active social stewardship roles was far more fragmented and less effective than it is today. We have seen some clear victories this year, many on the back of our efforts to organise, communicate, and collaborate effectively, and next year will bring more. As sense-making returns in Australia and elsewhere in the world, we look forward to a continuation in 2025 of the recovery trajectory for the West that ASF and its sister organisations here in Australia and around the world have been cheerleading.
The turn of the year is a great moment to join ASF as an affiliate, if you haven’t already, and resolve in 2025 to contribute what you can to the forces of sane and pro-social policy-making, health, and freedom for the people and the nation that we love so dearly.
Heartening initiatives over the past couple of months led by ASF and like-minded groups in Australia have included the following:
- The series of letters to the Prime Minister organised by the office of Russell Broadbent MP and signed by dozens of esteemed scientists (including several ASFers) raising the alarm about laboratory test results produced by Dr David Speicher showing evidence of DNA contamination in the covid vaccine vials used in Australia, followed by the passing in Port Hedland Council of a resolution to suspend the use of the mRNA vaccines and to disseminate this alarming information further amongst the Australian health profession and bureaucracy; the associated David Declaration; the associated Great Debate – Port Hedland vs the Premier event in Perth in November (to which, needless to say, the WA Premier did not show up); the immediately pre-Christmas letter in the same vein raising the alarm about evidence of contamination of the blood of Australians who had received these vaccines with synthetic DNA; and accompanying evidence that the TGA knew this sort of thing might happen;
- ASF’s second annual Progress through Science and Freedom conference held at RMIT in mid-November, and our Academia Libera Mentis boot camp held in northern New South Wales earlier this month;
- The Aligned Council of Australia’s Christmas Postcard campaign (you can still participate, even though it’s technically after Christmas);
- Malcolm Roberts’ ‘Covid Under Trial: Uncovering the Truth’ interview series;
- Release of the Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration documentary film called Medicine: At a critical tipping point? (trailer here)
- Start-up of a new political party called “Power2People”
Rebekah Barnett reviews the events of 2024 here, and the Brisbane Dialogues reviews its efforts in 2024 to revive and nurture informed, respectful discussions of important social, political and economic issues across aisles of belief and perspective here.
In the academic literature over the past month, we have seen continued evidence of dangers from the covid vaccines, as if more was needed (see here, here, here, and here, also reviewed in lay language here, and depressing compilations here and here). The psycho-social impacts of vax mandates are investigated here, and a broad view of the societal and health impacts of pharmacological product withdrawals and poor pharmacovigilance is provided here. For aspiring published authors in public health, a journal that appears to be so far uncaptured is here. Meanwhile, Fauci is still at it.
In legal news of the past month, William Bay – erstwhile cancellee at the hands of AHPRA, whose “reign of terror” is decried expertly by Kara Thomas here – enjoyed a court victory, which while surely something to celebrate appears to be the result primarily of the judge assessing technicalities (“procedural fairness”) rather than assessing the core issues at play, although part of the decision included the following observation: “None [of the “pandemic measures”] extended the Board’s regulatory role to include protection of government and regulatory agencies from political criticism”, demonstrating at least some consideration by the judge of whether AHPRA have any right to restrict the freedom of speech of a doctor listed in its registry, even in a “crisis”. The full judgment can be found here.
New South Wales has cancelled all covid-era fines and is busy issuing refunds, while Australian government officials and doctors are “concerned” and scratching their heads about what could possibly explain a recent decline in average vaccination rates. Russell Brand’s recent interview with US lawyer Aaron Siri may provide a clue: according to the courtroom statements of many high-ranking vaccine “experts”, the science to justify modern vaccination schedules is weak to absent. To read more on this topic, you may wish to open this new book.
In the US, while Donald J Trump has been making various interesting public pronouncements about his preparations for taking back the presidential seat, Congress has determined that the lab-leak theory about the origin of sars-cov-2 is on balance most likely (see full sub-committee report here). Meanwhile, the fig leaf for American public officials “fighting covid” with “countermeasures” that is the Covid PREP Act has been extended, despite (or because of?) the Government Accountability Office finding a comically large increase in claims submitted to the associated Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) when the covid jabs were rolled out in 2021.
In Malaysia, a class action lawsuit has been brought against a number of high-ranking public officials and the WHO in regard to covid jab injuries. This group is calling for the reform or replacement of the WHO, which may or may not be a viable approach to sustainably supporting world health, depending on your understanding of the mechanics of corruption and the ingredients that produce human health. Meanwhile, Sanjeev Sabhlok has called in a two-part series (here and here) for the classification of NPIs (“non-pharmaceutical interventions”) as health interventions that require the approval of the health intervention overseer – the FDA in the United States – to proceed.
All of us at Australians for Science and Freedom wish you a relaxing summer break and a productive, healthy, and joyful 2025. We are making headway. What an amazing time to be alive!
