Community Update – October 2024

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With another turbulent month behind us, ASF’s second Progress Through Science and Freedom conference is fast approaching! To take part in exciting discovery and discussions of ideas about how to restore the health of Australia’s society and institutions, while hearing in detail about the latest updates (good and bad) in the company of dozens of leading lights from the Australian contingent of Team Sanity, click here to secure your tickets for the event, being held from 15-17 November at RMIT campus in Melbourne.  We’ll also be holding ASF’s Annual General Meeting at the conference, to which everyone is invited, where you can witness ASF’s distributed leadership model in action, hear about all that the organisation has achieved this year, and learn what our exciting plans are for the coming year. 

And while you’re in Melbourne, you might also be interested in two plays addressing themes of masculinity, echoing our recent Restoring the Presumption of Innocence conference:

For 18-30 year-olds who are looking for a truly immersive and interactive educational experience, Gigi Foster’s Australian bootcamp for Academia Libera Mentis (née Nova Academia) held in Tenterfield 12-19 December is taking applications. Click here to express your interest in attending, or find out more here.

ASF is working with other organisations in the Aligned Council of Australia to fight against the government’s MAD Bill (let’s just call it what it is), which is currently being considered by the Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee. Please read the bill and consider signing the ACA-organised petition asking for this disastrous Bill to be scrapped before it gets a chance to wreak more havoc.

Many ASF members and affiliates supported federal MP Russell Broadband’s efforts to immediately cease the distribution of the Moderna and Pfizer covid vaccines due to the recent discovery of DNA contamination of some samples by an independent overseas laboratory. This important public health initiative has made some waves in Australia and overseas. UK doctor John Campbell discussed this important public health initiative on his hugely popular YouTube channel, health researcher Jessica Rose on her Substack, lawyer Julian Gillespie from a lawyer’s perspective here, here and here, and in the meantime thousands of Australian councillors can no longer stick their heads in the sand. The hubbub created was such that even some of the traditional media have not been able to ignore the issue, but have done their best to try to discredit our concerns with the usual ‘arguments’. Amongst these were the ABC, the North West Telegraph, and the Daily Mail. Read the latest summary of the state of play here.

We are hopeful that this heartening development initiated by Russell Broadbent, which has not yet run its full course, may be a turning point for the coverage of this issue in the mainstream media and in the headspace of ordinary Australians.

Those who still insist that mRNA ‘vaccines’ are the best thing since the invention of the wheel should read Raphael Lataster’s summary of contrary scientific literature. This article discusses the negative impacts of vaccine mandates in Canadian health care workers, and this one makes the case for more precise terminology around covid/vaccine injury diagnoses.

The new International Health Regulations are slated to come into force on 19 September 2025, so it’s time to say no or exit the WHO altogether. 

Covid vaccine injuries stories keep on rolling in, while doctors continue to suffer for speaking out against the narrative, as the (alleged) suicide of Dr Jackie Stone demonstrates. You might be interested in this interview with Brianne Dressen, who participated in the AstraZeneca trials, this new film featuring former triathlete Heiko Sepp, or the recording of the People’s Vaccine Inquiry DublinREACT19 is looking for participants in its covid vaccine injury study.

In other international news, Japan hosted the International Crisis Summit 2024, including a 20,000 strong anti-WHO protest through the streets of Tokyo. Read Jessica Rose’s write-up here, and watch the recordings here

Over in Europe, seven plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Bill Gates and others in a Dutch court, saying they suffered physical and psychological injuries after they were deceived into taking the dangerous covid injections. Germany’s farcical justice system keeps Rainer Füllmich in isolation as if he were a mass murderer, and punishes CJ Hopkins in a judgement that beggars belief, while the government refuses to review its pandemic response. Meanwhile, the UK’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty admitted to overstating the dangers of covid.

How is Argentina’s economy doing under the country’s new president, Javier Milei, we hear you ask? Check out this preliminary report card.

As a guest of the Savvy Street Show podcast, ASF’s Gigi Foster talked recently about the importance of love, freedom, and critical thinking in economics and public policy making. She also appeared recently on the Commanding the Narrative podcast with Steven Tripp and Victor Dalziel, speaking about the cost of living crisis, and also gave a TEDxUNSW talk last week entitled “The Manipulator’s Playbook:  How not to become enslaved when the powerful appeal to your loves,” for which the recording should be available soon through the TEDxUNSW social media, such as here.

You can also watch the recording of a recent Making America Healthy Again event called Rescue the Republic here. This event boasted a star-studded lineup, including Brett Weinstein, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Taibbi, and many more.  Stanford University also recently hosted a symposium, entitled Pandemic Policy: Planning the Future, Assessing the Past, with the opening address given by Jay Bhattacharya. Also in the US, the End the Vaccine Carveout Act has been introduced into Congress, the BART transit system in San Francisco, California was recently punished for mistreating its employees by not granting them covid vaccine exemptions, and a federal court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency must strengthen fluoride regulations in drinking water as currently the compound poses an unreasonable potential health risk.

As always, if you find our work useful, please tell your friends about us, and if you can, please consider supporting ASF.  We are Australia’s only cross-disciplinary resistance organisation born in the covid era, staffed entirely by volunteers, and determined to help design and build a better future for Australians – together.

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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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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.

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