LISTEN: On The Hard Yarns Podcast
There was nothing hard about my yarn with Cam and Delby on the Hard Yarns Podcast this week!
In just over two hours we covered Elon Musk’s awkward Nazi-esque salute, the alleged racism of sober culture (per the New York Times), how forgiving is not the same thing as forgetting (#noamnesty), conflict in the medical freedom movement, and that hectic mandate season we all lived through only a few years ago.
I shared the backstories behind some of my major scoops on this Substack, and we unpacked what makes good journalism (and what doesn’t).
You can listen via Spotify, Apple, or the Hard Yarns website.
Because Cam, Delby and I are all from Perth in Western Australia, we bantered some names around without always explaining who exactly we were discussing.
For overseas subscribers, some names you will hear in the podcast:
Mark McGowan - The West Australian Premier during Covid times, who enforced the toughest vaccine mandates in the world.
Michael Gunner - The Premier of the Northern Territory, infamous for very nearly foaming at the mouth in this disturbing tirade against ‘anti-vaxxers’.
Nick Coatsworth - Former federal deputy Chief Medical Officer and Senior Medical Advisor on Covid, and one of the only high-level bureaucrats or politicians to have publicly acknowledged that the vaccine mandates went too far.
Twiggy Forrest - A West Australian mining billionaire who has promised to give away half of his wealth to charity.
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DDU Substack stories discussed in the podcast:
Australia's drug regulator hid post-vaccine deaths from the public, concerned that 'disclosure could undermine public confidence'
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) reveal that the TGA appears to have hidden numerous post-vaccine deaths from the public view, including those of two children.
No evidence for TGA's mRNA safety claim
Australia’s drug regulator has repeatedly stated that residual synthetic DNA in mRNA vaccines poses no risk, despite credible concerns for long-term health consequences, including the risk of cancer and genomic integration.
BOMBSHELL: Australian drug regulator knows DNA fragments in mRNA vaccines can enter nucleus and integrate into genome, internal emails show
Internal emails from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) reveal that the regulator withheld knowledge of DNA contamination risks relating to the modRNA vaccines from the public, presenting a picture of certainty on safety where there is none.
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Forced retraction of Covid vaccine cancer-risk study, scientist alleges
Explosive new evidence uncovered in a two-years long investigation reveals that one of the authors of a retracted paper revealing the Covid vaccines’ potential to cause cancers never agreed to its retraction, which she now claims was “forced” in “violation of academic ethics.” Emails obtained under FOIA corroborate her story.
Why do some vaccine-injured people wake up - but others don't?
Some vaccine-injured people recognised what happened to them, accepted it, and joined the campaign for better research and vaccine safety. This has not uniformly been the case. Others remain in the dark, despite dealing with sudden and ongoing mystery illnesses.
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Great interview, Rebekah. I'll be checking more of Hard Yarns too, the lads are asking good questions. The high praise of being compared to Greenwald is thoroughly deserved too!