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

In light of acting minister Senator Chisholm's comments when he mentioned COVID, I wish to note and draw to the Senate's attention that the bill that was passed this morning, the Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Bill 2022, combined with this bill, makes it impossible to dodge vaccine mandates.

I want to draw the attention of the Senate to two points. The first is an article by the Washington correspondent for the Australian, Adam Creighton. The article is headlined '"US helped fund Covid-19": ex CDC director Robert Redfield'. Dr Robert Redfield is a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. It's supposedly an authoritative body. The article says:

Dr Redfield … said … during a House Select Coronavirus Pandemic Subcommittee hearing on "Investigating the Origins of COVID-19" that the deadly coronavirus "more likely was the result of an accidental lab leak"—

Whoops! Those conspiracy theorists were right! The article says:

The former head of the US Centers for Disease Control has told Congress the US government likely helped fund the development of Sars-Cov2, which he believed leaked from a Chinese lab in late 2019, ultimately killing more than 6 million people globally.

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Asked by Republican congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis whether "American tax dollars funded the gain of function research that created this virus", Dr Redfield, who was CDC director between 2018 and 2021, replied "I think it did".

This is serious stuff. The article goes on to say:

"As a clinical virologist I felt it was not scientifically plausible that this virus went from a bat to humans and became one of the most infectious viruses we have for humans …

His testimony came a week after revelations the FBI and the US Department of Energy had assessed the lab leak theory—once dubbed a 'conspiracy theory'—

where have I heard that before—

to be the most likely explanation for the origin of the pandemic.

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Dr Redfield, who was appointed by the Trump administration … said he had been side-lined early on by Dr Fauci—

where have I heard his name before—

and NIH head Dr Francis Collins—

where have I heard her name before—

who, Dr Redfield said, wanted to "create a narrative" the virus emerged naturally.

It's rubbish. The article continues:

The two hours of testimony and questioning by Democrat and Republican representatives of four expert witnesses on Wednesday … centred around private emails from top US scientists to Dr Fauci in late January, which suggested the new virus 'looked engineered'—

Senator Babet—

and what may have prompted their subsequent about face.

On February 4th, four of those scientists among a group of 11, who had convened on a confidential conference call organised by Dr Fauci, from which Dr Redfield—

head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—

was excluded, claimed the lab leak idea was not feasible in a draft academic paper that became the "Proximal Origin of Sars-Cov2", published in March.

"I didn't know there was a February 1 conference call until the Freedom of Information came out with the emails and I was quite upset as the CDC director that I was excluded," Dr Redfield said.

One of the witnesses, Nicholas Wade, both former editor of Nature and senior New York Times science writer, said the media had been "used" to establish the natural origin theory.

Like this government has been used. The article continues:

He also pointed out the scientists—

remember, this is a Democrat—

who seemingly changed their mind over the course of a few days later received a US$9 million grant from Dr Fauci's NIAID in May 2020.

This is serious stuff. The article continues:

Another witness, Dr Jamie Metzl, said the idea the virus emerged from wet markets was never the most logical explanation.

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"I'm a lifelong Democrat. I consider myself a progressive person, but … I couldn't find the justification for the strong arguments, calling people like me, investigating looking into pandemic origins in good faith, conspiracy theorists".

This smells. The TGA bill, combined with this bill, enables injection mandates. Let's have a think about who could be the beneficiaries here.

On Tuesday I discussed the fact that, over the last 15 years, 47 market-leading drugs have aged out of patent, costing pharmaceutical companies $30 billion a year in lost sales, including drugs that made up 42 per cent of Pfizer's drug revenue and 62 per cent of AstraZeneca's. This patent cliff is set to get worse, with another 15 leading drugs—nine of them among the world's top-20 best-selling drugs—due to expire this decade. Pfizer will lose another $15 billion in annual sales. The only way to replace so much revenue is with a whole new class of drug: mRNA—not tested, thought to be dangerous, killing people in this country and globally.

We've now seen that drug on the market, through mandates that the federal government drove. The former Prime Minister drove the injection mandates in this country. He bought the injections. He indemnified the states. He gave them to the states and gave them access to the health data that enabled the states to control the mandates. We are looking at something being set up here that is heinous.