Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

As a servant to the many different people who make up the amazing Queensland community, I speak to the Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Bill 2022. It's significant that in my speech's opening I refer to myself as a servant of Queensland and Australian people. Whoever wrote this bill is not a servant to the people but in fact sees the people as their servants—no, slaves; serfs. The bill destroys fundamental human rights, smashes fundamental principles of law, removes the tried and true system for authorising new drugs and places the Australian public at the mercy and under the control of unelected bureaucrats. These same bureaucrats proved themselves unfit to exercise their current power during COVID.

First let me explain the provisions of the bill. The first one is 'introducing a framework for the mandatory reporting of adverse events involving medical devices, principally by hospitals'. This has its origin in the pelvic mesh scandal.

Debate interrupted.