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

I seek leave to move the following motion:

That the House:

(1) notes:

(a) in a free democratic nation, any preventive medical intervention should only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned;

(b) that no Australia should be placed in a position where they are forced to undertake medical intervention to open their business, keep their job, to be able to pay their mortgage, or to put food on the table;

(c) today, many Australians are being coerced, against their free will to submit to receiving a medical intervention (being the COVID vaccines) just to open their business, keep their job, to be able to pay their mortgage, or to put food on the table;

(d) that no Australian should be placed in a position where they are forced to undertake a medical intervention to visit a beach or park;

(e) today, many Australians are being coerced, against their free will to submit to receiving a medical intervention (being the COVID vaccines) if they wish to visit a beach or go to a park;

(f) that the Australian constitution provides that trade commerce and intercourse between the state shall be "absolutely free";

(g) the words "absolutely free" in the Constitution are not preceded by first providing some government issued health papers;

(h) many Australians are being coerced, against their free will to submit to receiving a medical intervention (being the COVID vaccines) to cross state borders;

(i) the only document that Australians should need to cross a state border within Australia, is that little book called The Constitution; and

(j) the latest data out of Israel evidences that vaccine passports are deception and little more that a marketing stunt as they provide little evidence that a person is less likely to have COVID, and the latest published science evidences that person with a vaccine passport is no less likely to spread COVID compared to a person without a vaccine passport; and

(2) calls on Government to immediately bring the No Domestic Covid Vaccine Passport Bill 2021 for debate and for a vote.

Leave not granted.

I move:

That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Hughes from moving the following motion immediately:

That the government immediately bring on the No Domestic COVID Vaccine Passports Bill 2021 for debate and a vote before this parliament rises.

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