Russell Broadbent (Monash, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I invite anybody to please tell me I'm wrong. Look around our nation in the aftermath of the pandemic response and it's like looking at a trainwreck of devastation for many everyday Australians—everyday Australians who still have not been allowed back to work due to vaccine mandates; everyday Australians who had life-changing adverse effects from the COVID injections; everyday Australians silenced or censored for calling out the truth; everyday Australians we are elected to represent. As at 20 July, the TGA database shows 997 deaths and nearly 140,000 cases of adverse events. This is more than the total number of adverse events for all other vaccinations in the past 50 years combined. The ABS reports alarming excess deaths—around 10-15 per cent nationwide. A four per cent excess death rate is considered highly significant. A 15 per cent rate is a black swan event. Something is critically wrong in our country. Even worse, those of us who have been sounding the alarm have been surveilled and censored. Tell me I'm wrong—I want to be wrong. Of course, the litmus test for the truth of these words will be if Facebook and YouTube deem my speech to be misinformation and remove it from their platforms, like they did last year when I asked the government why it wasn't questioning the large number of excess deaths in Australia.