Gerard Rennick (Queensland, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move general business notice of motion No. 685, relating to the TGA and the risks of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and requiring the attendance of a minister.

Leave not granted.

Pursuant to contingent notice of motion standing in my name, I move:

That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion relating to the conduct of the business of the Senate, namely a motion to give precedence to general business notice of motion no. 685.

I have in my hands here today the smoking gun that demonstrates that the Therapeutic Goods Administration has not been honest about the safety of the vaccine. They knew about the risks of the vaccine back in July 2021, when a 52-year-old man passed away seven days after receiving that Pfizer vaccine. He passed away in his own home, in front of his wife and his 16-year-old son. An autopsy was performed on this man, and the pathologist determined that the direct cause of death was rapidly progressing myocarditis following Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination. This autopsy was eventually given to the TGA, and I note that the TGA said in the previous estimates that they don't solicit autopsy reports. They have ignored and failed to report this side effect and this death from the vaccine.

This matters because we know that tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Australians got myocarditis and other severe vaccine injuries from the vaccine. If we can't trust the TGA to be honest about this and follow due process, then we have serious issues. We have thousands of Australians out there today who cannot access compensation from the vaccine injury scheme because the TGA refuses to acknowledge the side effects from this vaccine. I will say it again: the cause of this death was myocarditis. The TGA know that myocarditis was a side effect from this vaccine and yet they didn't tell the Australian public.

This is urgent, because today we are still rolling out the mRNA vaccine and we are still claiming it is safe and effective. So the minister needs to explain why the health minister isn't on the phone to the TGA and the health department requiring them to explain not just to the minister but to the Australian people why they failed to inform the Australian people of the risks of that vaccine. This matters, because thousands have been injured by the vaccine. They need to be compensated.

It also raises the issue of how many other autopsies were sent to the TGA that they didn't bother disclosing to the Australian public. This is about due process. We cannot have the bureaucrats who approved this vaccine then being the same people who administer the injuries from this vaccine, because there is an inherent conflict of interest to cover up these injuries. It will show that they didn't do proper testing on this vaccine—not that we need the evidence of that. That was in the product assessment report on page 30.

The point of it is this: we want to know from the TGA and the health minister how many other autopsy reports were sent to the TGA and why the TGA doesn't feel the need to solicit autopsy reports when a reported death is sent to them. How on earth can you continuously monitor the safety of the vaccine if you're not following up on reported deaths? We know that the TGA never rang the family. We know that the family has never even been compensated by the Australian government. What sort of government do we have when we mandate the rollout of a vaccine, we don't warn people about all the risks of a vaccine and then, when they get injured, we leave them without any government support whatsoever?

This, I say to my fellow colleagues, is the smoking gun that demonstrates that the Australian people and even new people in this chamber were misled. I am asking you today to support my motion to ask the minister to explain why the TGA hasn't been held to account for the damage they have caused.

Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the question be now put.

Andrew McLachlan (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the question be put.

Andrew McLachlan (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the standing orders be suspended.

Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a very brief statement on the previous vote—30 seconds.

Leave not granted.