Community Update – November 2024

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The second annual Progress through Science and Freedom Conference, hosted at RMIT by ASF co-secretary Nick Blismas from 15 through 17 November, was reaffirming, uplifting, and productive. People were brought together from across Australia and across the professions, hailing from academia, the private sector, and grassroots communities.  As we did at last year’s inaugural annual ASF conference in Sydney, we spoke and heard at length on different problems facing society, in health, education, law, and the media, and how to approach them – and this year we engaged as a community to brainstorm in workshops about what an alternative health system could look like, and what initiatives ASF could target in the coming months and years, being aware of our strengths and the challenges we face.  Feedback on the conference has been overwhelmingly positive and will be shared with participants shortly. ASF leadership is planning a retreat early in the new year to consider the fruits of the conference and plan our strategy for the next few years. We are in this for the long term, and what a privilege it is to be part of the effort to rebuild and restore Australia!

Close on the heels of the annual conference, ASF is organising the Academia Libera Mentis boot camp that will take place from 12 through 19 December in northern New South Wales. Open to 18-to-30-year-olds, the camp will provide a taste of the content, structure, pedagogy and orientation of the 3-month and one-year Libera Mentis programs held at Castle Hodbomont in Belgium. Applications for the boot camp have formally closed, but if this is the first you’ve heard about it and a young person you know is broadly intellectually curious, eager to engage open-mindedly with others, and wants to help his or her society, contact admissions@liberamentis.org without delay and we may just be able to squeeze in one more.

ASF is proud to have played our part in defeating the MAD bill (at least for now), and we have made a submission to help smash the social media minimum age bill as well. No matter how much nonsense governments spawn to attack our freedoms, ASF intends to do our best to dispose of it.

We’re also supporting efforts by the North Group to push governments around the world to immediately cease the distribution of further mRNA ‘therapeutic’ substances. 

Here on home soil, on Friday 29 November in Perth, a group of truth-tellers including ASF’s Gigi Foster will appear on The Great Debate Between Port Hedland Council and the (likely absent) Premier of WA, to discuss the mis-&-dis-information surrounding the disturbing discovery of frightening and illegal levels of DNA contamination in Australia’s mRNA Covid-19 injections. Tickets are still available here. (To catch up on the DNA contamination story if you haven’t heard, you may find this video by John Campbell helpful – and watch out for news of the David Declaration very soon.)

In line with the Port Hedland motion, ASF’s Julie Sladden, councillor of West Tamar in Tasmania, has brought a motion during a recent ordinary council meeting to acknowledge the danger of mRNA vaccines – and courageous people at several other local Councils (including independent journalist Alison Bevege’s Woollahra Council) are similarly following the Port Hedland lead. Oncology professor Angus Dalgleish even managed a spot on Sky News taking on the Victorian government, which is still mandating mRNA covid jabs for the state’s firefighters.

There is further evidence of a causal relationship between covid jabs and death, certain brain injuries, and what’s known as post-acute-Covid-vaccination syndrome. The harrowing stories of vaccine injured people continue to emerge, including here at the Irish Stone Summit, and here, here, and here.

Beyond covid-related issues, an interesting study has found that almost 75 percent of disease awareness campaigns are influenced by companies that stand to gain financially. 

Apart from being wary of poisonous substances, there are efforts underway to stop the devastating practice of lockdowns and quarantines. You can sign a petition against these policies here. Perhaps the only positive news from the federal government’s Covid-19 inquiry report (lashed by ASF’s Gigi Foster in the AFR here) is the authors’ realisation that lockdowns would probably not be so easily accepted by the population in a future pandemic.

In international news, US president-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya as leaders within the Department of Health and Human Services. For US expatriates who want to suggest policies for that country, visit this site (perhaps something we could replicate in Australia?). In a rare moment of awareness, Jeff Bezos acknowledged (in his own newspaper) the image problem facing journalism. How lucky we have other media options, without which we might never have heard that during the recent hurricane in Florida relief workers were told they should not help victims who were Trump supporters.

Finally, a few book recommendations for your Christmas shopping basket:

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We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a restful holiday break!

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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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Second “Progress through Science and Freedom” Conference

ASF’s second conference again brings together thinkers and community leaders to share learnings, formulate plans and help establish new and emerging networks and organisations to restore a thriving Australian society founded on science and freedom.

Friday 15 November 6:00PM – 8:00PM – Social drinks

Saturday 16 November 8:30AM – 5:30PM – Conference – panel discussions

Saturday 16 November  7:00 PM to Late – Conference Dinner

Sunday 17 November 8:30AM – 3:00PM – Conference – discussion, news updates and workshops