Craig Kelly (Hughes, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Professor Peter A. McCullough concluded:

Continued vaccination will only make this problem worse, particularly among frontline doctors and nurses workers who are caring for vulnerable patients.

Health systems should drop vaccine mandates immediately, take stock of COVID-19 recovered workers who are robustly immune to Delta and consider the ramifications of their current vaccinated healthcare workers as potential threats to high risk patients and coworkers.

I do not know if Dr Peter McCullough is correct or not, but I know that we should be listening to what he says and we should be debating it. When it comes to Australians with disabilities who are under our National Disability Insurance Scheme, we owe them the precautionary principle and we must be very careful about proceeding down a path with the NDIS, governed by New South Wales Health, that is in direct contradiction to the latest science that Dr McCullough outlines in the letter that I have just read into Hansard.

As I said, I come to this debate with a special personal interest in the National Disability Insurance Scheme. I want to make sure that everyone under this scheme gets looked after as best as they possibly can. We owe that to them. Unlike the member for Fenner, who sits at the desk and wants everyone to be quiet and censored, I believe we owe it to them to debate the facts on the table to ensure that we are giving the most disadvantaged and people with special needs and disabilities in this country every possible chance. That is what I have done today in putting this evidence on the table. If Dr McCullough is wrong, let others debate the facts. Let others come in here and quote other peer reviewed science that shows the contrary. If not, they simply should shut up.

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