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A Dizzle's avatar

No accountability and hiding behind the "we did it because good things" excuse. I'm sure Mengele thought he was doing some good to some degree. Gates is sure he's doing some good. Mao thought he was doing some good. My God, if thinking we are doing some good and morals and ethics as well as our constitution is just heaved aside, what isn't doing some good? The bar is set very low. The general public are victim to propaganda 24/7 since the pandemic began. If anything, a public survey should be viewed as a measure of propaganda efficacy not pandemic response proportionality. Offenders the LGBTQI Mafia and you're sued into financial ruin eg. Bernard Gaynor. Destroy millions of lives and their health, she's right mate. The death of one person as tragedy, the death of millions a statistic. The trouble is, the deaths are not done. 40yo female had a reaction both times neurological, not reported. That's a family that near lost a mum. May God's vengeance be swift and thorough on these people responsible for these atrocities.

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Evad's avatar

Yes, I think you are onto something when you claim that a survey of public sentiment is a measure of the effectiveness of an indoctrination campaign.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Ditto that.

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Jane Vickery's avatar

Disappointing, but unsurprisingly another bureaucratic whitewash. The judiciary and the bureaucracy are corrupt to the core. God only knows how these people sleep at night.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I think they really believe 'safe and effective' and all the rest.

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Marie-Rose's avatar

And yet........ I do have to question, when, in the middle of the "deadly pandemic", how is it the feds were all given an option whether to have the jab - OR NOT! ...... not to mention in satanic Victorian lockdowns, brothels were allowed to remain open..... just how beyond absurd is that.......so many levels of ridiculous, that should have had most sane, logical people, thinking "Hang on a minute...."

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Billy Field's avatar

The truth is they don't want to look at the evidence....don't want to get "cancelled" ...everyone "in the system/s" risks losing meal tickets AND that is a LOT of "meal ticket too.

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A Dizzle's avatar

They need to believe they were right, because if they're wrong, they're guilty of committing crimes against humanity and should attract the full investigation and be punished according to their actions. Our institutions and their leadership failed us on a very basic level. Whether by design or by entropy that must be determined.

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Evad's avatar

Yes, and behaviour is driven by beliefs. And we do not have much control over our beliefs.

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dan's avatar

"...on satin sheets next to a woman whose beauty would make you weep with desire..." Vale Michael Leunig

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Bryan's avatar

When it mattered the HRC were MIA. Too late to the party.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I agree. They should have advocated from the outset.

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Billy Field's avatar

Of course but they are most all infiltrated & captured...their actions show it

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Evad's avatar

Lots were MIA ...not least comedians who ought to have been publicly satirising the fuck out of the government regulations.

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Julian Gillespie's avatar

thank you Rebekah,

.. a fine review .. a little triggering of the trauma millions suffered, and continue to suffer

for mine .. the AHRC is a disgrace .. this report - an insult to all Australians

Lorraine Finlay is not a true Human Rights advocate, just a perversely paid bureaucrat who knows how to recite relevant treaties and human rights laws, only to water them all down into meaninglessness

.. the result - she left the door wide open for it all to happen again

Lorraine certainly knows who butters her bread

what a disgraceful life legacy to leave behind

well done Lorraine, well done

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Mz's avatar

thank you Julian,

for speaking my mind (in more tempered fashion than I might have); . . and speaking of mandates - the AHRC utterly abandoned theirs when most needed. Ef-ing pitiful.

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Evad's avatar

To think there exists a belief that having women holding high ranking positions leads to more caring leadership.:)

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Billy Field's avatar

Spot on Julian

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Aquila's avatar

When it counted they did nothing. They are useless.

Frankly this is just their attempt to appear relevant so they can keep collecting their easy pay.

They should be sacked. The money saved from their pay should go to people whose health or livelihood was destroyed by office fauna like them.

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Ian's avatar

I could be wrong, but my take on these reports & inquiries is that the people involved e.g. politicians & public servants were never at risk of losing their jobs, homes, businesses etc, therefore cannot hold a truly empathetic view on the impact of mandates on 'normal' people!

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I think you can be empathetic without having personally lived through an experience. With the AHRC I'm not sure that the problem is so much lack of empathy as it is blind faith in the regulator's safe and effective messaging, along with some double-think on the injury front.

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Gareth Thomas's avatar

I felt my brain was going to explode reading your article Rebekah.

Absolute public service self-serving garbage.

Essentially, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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LizC's avatar

Excellent article Rebekah. I will never forgive, or forget, the lack of support for human rights this organisation displayed. They did it again in the 'what is a woman' court case, proving they don't think women have the right to meet without men in any situation.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I am going to hear Sall Grover speak about this later today!

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LizC's avatar

I wonder if you might feel moved to write about this case, or the broader issue, sometime? Many people still don't know what's happening and would be shocked to learn of its ramifications. It's not a fringe issue, quite the opposite!

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Yes we are doing an interview this week :)

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Pillo's avatar

Thanks Rebekah 🙏👍 They weren't able to fool everyone and they wanna get better at it

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Antipodes's avatar

"In the survey, 74% of participants agreed that the greater good of the community should always be considered before individual rights, and only 10% disagreed."

That is, 75% of people believed Mob Rule is OK. and 10% did not. Whis is about the norm.

I regarded the Jab Roll Out at the time as 1 big Asch Conformity Test, and this commission only reinforces that view.

It makes me wonder if Democracy is truly as good as it is proclaimed? I mean it is also a form of Mob Rule. We are all told, scolded and conditioned into thinking it is, but that very same conditioning is what enable these various acts of Covid Malfeance to be perpetuated so effectively.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Well I think a well-functioning democracy depends on a well-functioning 4th estate, so as some other commenters have picked up, the survey statistic could be read as a measure of how well the propaganda campaign worked.

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Justine Stewart's avatar

The propaganda was relentless

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Billy Field's avatar

"In the survey, 74% of participants agreed that the greater good of the community should always be considered before individual rights," I don't think this rings true...I haven't met a single person who supports "mandated Vaxes". If they manufacture endless lies & deceptions hourly ...why wouldn't they lie about or do fake "surveys"?

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Evad's avatar

Regarding the collectivist sentiment reflected in that 74% survey figure, it is worth noting that burden of the restrictions were far from equitably distributed across the community. Imagine, for instance, the situation of someone who was wealthy and semi retired living in a North shore residence compared to a couple who have just lost their 'non essential' employment and who lives in a cramped tower block with three needy children.

Next, regarding the 57% in favour ofa mandatory COVID jabs, methinks they were given (by the media) an inflated perception of (A) the ratio of Vax effectiveness to Vax danger and an exaggerated perception of (B) the product of the disease contagion and disease potency. That is, their responses assumed dubious starting information. With both A and B very high (in FACT), the case for compulsion is strong.

I think exemptions on so called 'medical grounds' are problematic, meanwhile.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Re: your first point this was also well made by the report

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Billy Field's avatar

It has been a pack of lies from the onset..& the lies are still ongoing..... this "investigation" is yet more deception by not looking at the crucial evidence. We knew from first days of Vax roll out that they did not work, did not stop "Covid 19" (ie flu/pneumonia the disease) or "transmission" of it and it killed people. Yes it killed people from the onset! Facts! 54,000 Drs, Scientists & pub health experts exposed the wrongfulness of it all when they signed the Great Barrington in UK in Oct 2021. Media ignore this. Media had been paid 100's millions to label any questions of Vax safety & efficacy as "Vax deniers" & "Misinformation spreaders". Now this Investigations Commissioner says "This isn’t about who is to blame, but how we can do better. .." How perfectly lovely ....even MORE deception & public money rorted! And all the Vax killers & murderers walk free!..with a big stash of public money in their kick!

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dan's avatar

Only 57% of people supported vax mandates?? It sure felt like 99.99% at the time. "You're Welcome" - remember that?

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

The survey was conducted in 2024. I would imagine they’d have seen higher support in 2021-2022.

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