Australian Health Ministers: all power, no responsibility
I was had. I thought the WHO was the bad guy. Turns out I need to look closer to home. Shout out to James Roguski for helping me realise!
We gave them the power.
We let our parliaments pass emergency laws.
Like the Biosecurity Act 2015 at the federal level which gives the Chief Medical Officer unlimited power to issue directions regardless of any other laws.
Like the Public Health Act 2016 in Western Australia which legalises forced vaccination.
And like the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 in Vic (check out sections 190 and 200) which mean an “authorised officer” can detain you if you don’t give your “voluntary” informed consent.
We let Daniel Andrews say I’m not resigning because I’m not a quitter. Has he never heard of ministerial accountability? If you stuff up, you go.
We abdicated. We let “them” do those things. We even re-elected Daniel Andrews in Victoria. But why?
Because we imbibed the idea that it’s the goverment’s job to protect us, that they know best how to do that, that they can do that, and that in doing so they’ll have our interests at heart.
We forgot we have - if only we choose to own it - our own agency as human beings, our own capacity to take personal responsibility for our health and the health of our loved ones and of our community.
We abdicated.
We gave the Chief Health officers and Health Ministers a blank cheque on the promise they would keep us safe. At the expense of anything and everything else, entirely at their discretion.
We abdicated.
Our State and Territory governments and parliaments also abdicated - to a committee self-importantly called the National Cabinet, which is not a cabinet but likes to think it is so that it can argue it doesn’t have to disclose its decision-making processes (see also here).
How many Australians have even heard of the Health Ministers Meeting? But this is the crew who run the country now. Whether it’s during an emergency or not, the Health Ministers will make recommendations to the National Cabinet. The National Cabinet will make decisions. And in an apparent stitch up agreed amongst themselves, the Premiers and Chief Ministers who make up the National Cabinet will then implement national cabinet’s decisions. You can see this arrangement in black and white in the National Caninet’s “terms of reference” proudly displayed on a non- govt website with a logo you’ve never seen before. You can see it in action when the Health Ministers decide the “National Law” regulating health practitioners should change, and instruct the parliaments accordingly: in the Queensland parliament, the Health Minister complained the parliamentary debate was a waste of time:
“Also, it seems the opposition would have us vote down these three clauses of the bill in their entirety. This would have the effect of preventing these public safety measures from taking effect in all states and territories, not just Queensland. That would be contrary to what has been agreed to by Australian health ministers. While we can modify the application of the national law in Queensland, we have no licence to rewrite the law for the entire country based on the views of those opposite.” (emphasis added)
Who conjured up this decision-making body and called it the “National Cabinet”, to play arguably the most critical role of all in our so-called democracy? (Answer - the people who form the National Cabinet, ie the Prime Minister, Premiers and Chief Ministers) made it up!)
So in an inversion of the proper democratic process, it’s the health ministers collectively who will tell the Victorian parliament and government what they should do to manage the next public health emergency.
Now that the health ministers have the power - because we gave it to them, thank you very much - they want to make sure they have no responsibility. Why else would they support the proposed amendments to the IHR which if passed will make the WHO’s “recommendations” binding under international law?
If only the State governments would take responsibility for health, the fact that the WHO’s recommendations may become binding in the realm of international law very soon would be entirely irrelevant. Without the local police force enforcing lockdowns how could those “binding” recommendations be enforced? The States and Territories who don’t follow the WHO’s recommendations may suffer no negative repercussions whatsoever. (Would there be significant political repurcussions?)
Health is the prerogative and responsibility of our States and Territories under the Australian constitution. But our governments and public health bureaucrats seem to want to pretend that they’ll be obliged to follow the WHO’s recommendations. I’ve previously pointed out that our Biosecurity Act gives the federal government the ability to issue emergency directions in order to follow WHO recommendations. But the Biosecurity Act doesn’t require the federal govt to do so. And the Biosecurity Act has nothing to say about whether our States and Territories can should or must follow WHO recommendations, binding or otherwise.
As Bruce Pardy so eloquently expresses in this excellent conversation with James Roguski, it takes two to cede sovereignty.
It seems the WHO wants to take it, and our Health Ministers want to give it. Is that so the Health Ministers to say “we had to lock down because we’re bound under international law to follow the WHO’s recommendations”? It turns out there is no obligation on our state governments to implement WHO recommendations just because our federal government signs us up to the IHR amendments in May. The whole thing is a hoax. And - with heartfelt thanks to James Roguski, I now realise - a decoy.
Is there a Health Minister or shadow health minister in any Australian state or territory willing to take responsibility for their own decisions and treat WHO recommendations as recommendations rather than legally or morally binding directions? If so, I’ll move to the other side of the continent to help you get elected, if I have to.
National Cabinet, the Health Ministers and the bureaucrats at the WHO have got carried away with an overinflated sense of their own importance. And ordinary Australians, our doctors and our parliaments have forgotten or been too overwhelmed by cowardice or confusion to take responsibility for ourselves. We have fallen hook line and sinker for the big idea that the government can protect us from everything. And that the government in power will know better than we do what’s best for our health.
Was there ever a better example of an emperor with no clothes, than the WHO?
Say no to the WHO. But more importantly, be a beacon for personal responsibility in your local neighbourhood and when you cast your vote at the next State or federal election. And in the meantime have a good hard look at what’s happening to our democracy. It’s worth taking a look under the hood to see what is really going on.
Libby, we didn't give them this power...they took it.
They betrayed our trust. They exploited us. These traitors have destroyed the psyche of this country, it will never be the same.
They stole freedom, and set Australians against each other with this phony manufactured crisis.
Take for example National Cabinet - Scott Morrison and the Premiers and Chief Ministers set the ball rolling on mandatory vaccination, they broke the principle of voluntary informed consent for Covid vaccination, with the collaboration of Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly and the AHPPC.
On 4 June 2021 the AHPPC specifically announced the "AHPPC does not recommend compulsory COVID-19 vaccination requirements for aged care workers".
Also on the same day, 4 June 2021, an ABC headline announced: "Scott Morrison to use National Cabinet to lobby state governments to go against health advice on COVID vaccination".
The ABC reported: "The Prime Minister will lobby state and territory leaders to overrule medical experts' advice and force aged care workers to get the coronavirus vaccine... The panel of health experts, chaired by the Chief Medical Officer, has advised for a second time against making the coronavirus vaccine compulsory."
The workers' union did not support compulsion, with the ABC reporting: "A union representing Victoria's aged care workforce, the Health Workers Union (HWU), has argued against the decision of the Prime Minister... Union state secretary Diana Asmar said the HWU had strongly encouraged workers to get the jab but did not believe it should be compulsory." Ms Asmar said: "We live in a free country and not Communist China."
It's stunning that it was publicly announced that Scott Morrison, a politician, was going to lobby his state and territory counterparts in National Cabinet to overrule the medical experts' advice.
As reported by the national broadcaster, the ABC, the political plan was to 'force' aged care workers to have the coronavirus vaccine, thereby denying this group of Australians the freedom to consent to or refuse medical interventions depending upon their own personal health circumstances and preferences, and threatening them with the loss of livelihood for refusing to comply with vaccination mandates.
Subsequently, on 28 June 2021, it was announced "The National Cabinet agreed that COVID-19 vaccinations are to be mandated for residential aged care workers as a condition of working in an aged care facility through shared state, territory and Commonwealth authorities and compliance measures."
So after pressure from Scott Morrison and National Cabinet, Paul Kelly and the AHPPC reneged on their earlier advice against making the coronavirus vaccine compulsory for aged care workers, and rubber-stamped a political decision after the event, as announced in the AHPPC statement, a day later on 29 June 2021: "AHPPC recommends to National Cabinet that the residential aged care workforce be vaccinated against COVID-19, as a condition of working in a residential aged care facility..."
The Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation called it out at the time, being "concerned that mandating vaccinations for the aged care workforce could be a 'political decision, not a health decision’…”
Paul Kelly subsequently boasted "Australia was one of the first countries internationally to mandate COVID-19 vaccination", in his co-authored article published in the Medical Journal of Australia in November 2022 - Implementing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for Australian aged care workers.
In other words, Australia was one of the first countries in the world to deny voluntary informed consent for the Covid vaccinations, facilitated by medical practitioner Paul Kelly and his medical colleagues on the AHPPC.
Australians were press-ganged into participating in a massive global scientific experiment, with then Health Minister Greg Hunt admitting in February 2021: "The world is engaged in the largest clinical trial, the largest global vaccination trial ever..."
But this was an experiment without voluntary informed consent, which is a violation of medical ethics and international human rights conventions such as the Helsinki Declaration.
Paul Kelly and the AHPPC should not have recommended mandatory Covid injections for any group in Australia, and the medical profession should not have collaborated with mandated medical interventions.
The denial of voluntary informed consent for residential aged care workers set a precedent for depriving others of voluntary informed consent for Covid-19 vaccination, including subsequent workforce mandates recommended by Paul Kelly and the AHPPC, i.e. mandatory vaccination of all workers in health care settings; mandating vaccination for disability support workers; and mandatory vaccination of aged care in-home and community aged care workers.
For references supporting commentary above, please see my notification to AHPRA about CMO Paul Kelly, 16 June 2023: https://vaccinationispolitical.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/notification-to-ahpra-re-medical-practitioner-paul-kelly.pdf
In regard to 'bad guys', we need to closely examine the net...
And former Health Minister Greg Hunt is a very big fish.
Hunt was basically calling the shots during the bulk of the Covid scam, along with Paul Kelly the Chief Medical Officer, and the Governor General...and Scott Morrison and National Cabinet.
I wrote to Greg Hunt on 23 July 2021 asking "what is the definition of 'the emergency' you are using to justify the Governor General's declaration of a human biosecurity emergency under the Biosecurity Act 2015?"
I did not receive a response.
I also asked: "What is the "specialist medical and epidemiological advice provided by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) and the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer"? Has this been objectively and independently assessed? Please provide me with the AHPPC and Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer's advice, and the empirical evidence supporting this advice."
No response.
I also asked: Who are the members of the AHPPC? The AHPPC webpage states: "AHPPC is comprised of all state and territory Chief Health Officers and is chaired by the Australian Chief Medical Officer."[4] This is surprisingly scant information for a group of unelected people who are wielding enormous influence over the free movement and association of Australians during this extensive 'emergency' period, and who are also pressing covid-19 vaccine products upon the Australian population."
No response.
It's also very interesting to note that before entering the Australian Parliament in 2001, Greg Hunt was the Director of Global Strategy of the World Economic Forum 2000-2001 - responsible for the development of global strategy for the WEF, working directly to the CEO, and during 1999-2001 he was Engagement Manager - McKinsey & Co, providing specialist advice in telecommunication, start-ups, government reform and the banking sector.
So just as Klaus Schwab has boasted...zee cabinets were penetrated...after which we ended up with a fake pandemic to install totalitarianism.
So much to look back on now...
Also see my substack article: “THEY FAKED A PANDEMIC TO INSTALL TOTALITARIANISM.” https://elizabethhart.substack.com/p/they-faked-a-pandemic-to-install