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If the Will Were There to End Vaccine Mandates…
Australian politicians are trying to achieve the goal of full COVID-19 vaccination by scaring and threatening the population. Presently, the states are forcing Australians to get vaccinated or face job losses and the imposition of heavy fines. Some states and Territories have issued “health orders” mandating vaccination for numerous industries or workers. Prime Minister Scott Morrison tacitly endorses these mandatory vaccination orders, despite his earlier insistence that no one would be vaccinated against their will, as evidenced by his refusal to back the introduction of federal legislation that would effectively overturn the states’ ability to impose their will.
Pauline Hanson’s pro-choice bill, recently rejected in the Senate, would have prohibited states, territories and businesses from discriminating on the ground of vaccine status. In a speech delivered remotely to the Senate, Hanson argued that those who opposed her pro-choice billweare “too bloody gutless to…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
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