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

I seek leave to move the following motion—and I apologise to members of the opposition for delaying the matter of public importance:

That this House:

(1) notes:

(a) in a free and democratic nation any experimental medical intervention which has zero long-term safety data should only be administered with the free and informed consent of the person undergoing the medical intervention,

(b) no Australian should ever be placed in a situation where they are coerced into undertaking any medical intervention with the threat of being sacked from their job and denied the freedom to work in their career of choice and the career that they have trained for,

(c) any policy by a government or a private sector employer that mandates Australians to be injected with an experimental vaccine violates basic human rights,

(d) thousands of Australians, including nurses, police officers, airline pilots, teachers, truck drivers, disability workers, charity workers, office staff et cetera, have already been thrown out of their jobs and denied the freedom to pursue their career of choice for not submitting to being injected with an experimental, provisionally approved substance that has no long-term safety data,

(e) compulsory mandates requiring Australians to be injected with any COVID injections, and policies of segregation, discrimination and medical apartheid are not based upon the latest science or the latest evidence, but such mandates are based upon the marketing literature of the vaccine sellers, superstition and mindless fearmongering, and

(f) the most recent—

Andrew Wallace (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Member for Hughes, these motions to suspend standing orders are meant to be brief. How many items do you have left?

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

I have two more points, Mr Speaker.

Andrew Wallace (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Hughes has the call.

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

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Further:

(f) the most recent published data from the UK Health Security Agency, titled COVID vaccine surveillance report: week 46, records that those injected twice between the ages of 30 and 79 years of age have a greater chance of having COVID than those not injected, and the title of a recently published study by researchers from the University of California is self-explanatory; it is 'vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads'. The esteemed virologist Geert Vanden Bossche has warned that such mandates will result in a catastrophe and has stated: 'No healthy individual should be considered more of an infectious threat than another. There is no scientific rationale for any individual, whether vaccinated or not, to discriminate against contacts with any healthy vaccinated or unvaccinated person';

(2) notes that the federal government of Australia has multiple constitutional powers to ban COVID vaccine mandates and to ensure that workers currently sacked from their jobs under vaccine mandates can return to their work and recommence their careers before Christmas.

Only hours ago, in the USA, a federal judge—

Andrew Wallace (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Member for Hughes, you said you had two more. A motion to suspend standing orders is not an opportunity to debate the issue.

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

I'll conclude with the final point:

(3) calls on the government to immediately bring on the No Domestic Vaccine Passport Bill 2021, introduced in this parliament in July by the member for Hughes, for debate and determination before this parliament rises for the Christmas-New Year holiday break.

Leave not granted.

I move:

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

That the House:

(1) notes:

(a) in a free democratic nation, any experimental medical intervention, which has zero long-term safety data, should only be administered with the free and informed consent of the undergoing the medical invention;

(b) no Australian should ever be placed in a situation where they are coerced into undertaking any medical intervention, let alone an experimental provisionally approved medical intervention (which has zero long term safety data) with the threat of being sacked from their job and denied the freedom to work in their career of choice and a career that they have trained for;

(c) any policy by a government or the private sector which mandates Australians to be injected with an experimental genetic agent violates basic human rights;

(d) thousands of Australians including nurses, police officers, airline pilots, teachers, truck drivers, disability workers, charity workers, office staff, etc. have already been thrown out of their jobs and denied the freedom to pursue their career of choice for not submitting to be injected with an experimental, provisionally approved substance that has no long-term safety data due to compulsory mandates for medical intervention with the COVID vaccines;

(e) compulsory mandates, requiring Australians to be injected with any of the COVID injections, and policies of segregation, discrimination and medical apartheid are not based upon the science or the evidence - such mandates are based upon the marketing literature of the vaccine sellers, superstition, and mindless fearmongering;

(f) the most recent published data from the UK Health Security Agency, titled: COVID Vaccine Surveillance Report week 46 - records that those injected twice aged between 60 and 79 years of age have a greater chance of having COVID than those not injected. And for those in age groups between 40 and 69 years of age the data records those "injected twice" have more than double the rate of COVID infections compared to those not injected at all;

(g) the title of a recent published study by researchers from the University of California is self-explanatory: 'Vaccinated and Unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads'

(h) the esteemed virologist Geer Vanden Bossche was warned that such mandates will result in a 'catastrophe' and have stated: "No healthy individual should be considered more of an infectious threat than another. There is no scientific rational for any individual, whether vaccinated or not, to discriminated against contacts with any healthy vaccinated or unvaccinated person"; and

(i) that recent detections of the Omicron COVID variant in Australia have all been among people with a vaccine passport, demonstrating that vaccine passports are worse than useless;

(2) notes that the federal Government of Australia has multiple constitutional powers to ban COVID injection mandates, and to ensure that workers currently sacked from the jobs under vaccine mandates can return to work and recommence their careers before Christmas;

(3) only hours ago, in the USA a federal judge issued preliminary injunction against the US President's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. With the decision, no healthcare worker in all 50 states of USA can dismissed from their job for not submitting to mandatory injection with a COVID genetic vaccine, with the judge noting: "if human nature and history teach us anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risk when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency..."; and

(4) call on the Government to immediately bring on the No Domestic COVID Vaccine Passport Bill 2021, introduced to this Parliament in July by the Member for Hughes in July for debate and determination before this Parliament rises for the Christmas New Year break.

With only a few weeks left until Christmas, many Australians are facing a dark and bleak Christmas holiday. They are facing a situation where they will not be able to recommence their jobs. They are facing a situation of being sacked from not only their employment but also their career of choice. This includes nurses. This includes police officers, airline pilots, teachers, truck drivers, disability workers and charity workers. Many of them have already been thrown out of their jobs, denied the freedom that we are blessed with here in Australia to pursue their career of choice, simply for deciding—they have made the decision for themselves—that they do not want to participate in this global vaccine experiment. That should be the free choice that these people have in a democratic society. Standing and sessional orders should be suspended because we here in this parliament have only hours before we will pack up and go on holidays. This parliament will close down over the Christmas break for all of us to enjoy the Christmas holidays and a Christmas break. But we will be denying that break to thousands upon thousands of Australians.

We heard only a few hours ago that in the USA a federal judge issued preliminary injunctions against the US President's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. With this decision, no healthcare worker in all 50 states of the USA can be dismissed from their job for not submitting to a mandatory injection with a COVID genetic vaccine. The judge noted:

If human nature and history teach us anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risk when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency.

The House should bring this on for a debate. If the member for Macarthur has an alternative opinion, let's have the debate, because there are thousands of medical experts with far higher qualifications than the member for Macarthur who have treated far more COVID patients than the member for Macarthur has and have a completely different opinion to the medical bureaucrats of this nation. We deserve to have that debate. There is no single source of truth when this comes about. Mandates forcing Australians to be injected against their free will, using coercion, are unethical, un-Australian and should stop. This parliament has the power to do so. It has the power to reunite our nation, to end the segregation, to end medical discrimination, if it wants to.

That is the choice that I wish to put to this parliament that they can vote on immediately.

Andrew Wallace (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Is the motion seconded?

George Christensen (Dawson, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I second the motion. I'll be very brief. I support this motion because of the heartache that I am hearing and the harm that I'm hearing from my constituents, people who have lost their jobs or are about to lose their jobs, all because they will not be part of, or do not wish to be part of, a provisionally approved medical procedure in this country. It is a provisionally approved medical procedure. There is no denying that fact; it's on the TGA's website. For governments to be saying to people—it is not, I appreciate, the Australian government; it is state governments that are saying it—that they must go and have this medical procedure done in order to keep their job is anathema. It is hurting people—a lot of people.

To show the stupidity of it—I mentioned this last night in this place—a psychologist in Mackay who does home consults by telehealth has to be double vaccinated, or she loses her career of 30 years. Tell me: how is COVID going to crawl down the internet and infect one of her patients? It's absurd. But the whole thing is absolutely absurd. It's not just workers who are going to be hurt here. I know of small business owners—cafe owners—who don't want to partake in the medical procedure, and they are going to have to shut their doors. Perhaps even some of them will go bankrupt in Queensland from 17 December.

We can do something about it here in this place. We should do something about it. We control the data that comes from the Australian Immunisation Register. It can be flicked off with a switch, and then no-one knows who's vaccinated and who's not. We should have that stance until the people who are imposing this medical segregation actually say they're going to stop it and not harm anyone anymore.

Andrew Wallace (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the motion moved by the member for Hughes be disagreed to.

A division having been called and the bells having been rung—

As there are fewer than five members on the side for the noes in this division, I declare the question resolved in the affirmative in accordance with standing order 127. The names of those members who are in the minority will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.

Question agreed to, Mr Christensen, Mr Craig Kelly and Mr Llew O'Brien voting no.