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Uh, thank you very much, uh, for that warm welcome. Uh, it's great to be here tonight. And of course, I must acknowledge Jewel Burbidge, uh, who has been a fantastic supporter of mine. And, Uh, I'm gonna start this evening with a question that was put to me just before I came into the room earlier and someone said to me, uh, you must enjoy being busy. And I have to say to you, I actually don't enjoy being busy. Um, what I do enjoy, however, is moving forward, 'cause at the end of the day, you know, a lot of people, you know, if you're not careful, you can spend your life spinning, your wheels being angry, um, you know, resentment, despair, as Gabrielle pointed out. Um, but we have to always keep moving forward.
And right now, we're at the end, you know, we're just on the other side of an election whereby I was a part of a government, you know, a member of a government that lost power. Uh, and we have to look forward, uh, and try and work out what the best way that will be, uh, and how we wanna move forward. Um, and, and so tonight, normally I come out and I've got, you know, I give you the reasons why I ran, and I might do that later on without the vaccines and the mandates.
What I do know is this, from my three years in Parliament, is that we have to re-empower the individual. Yes. Because for too long governments have been eroding our civil liberties. They have been eroding our rights and responsibilities.
I'm not gonna say they've been eroding our freedoms. Freedom is a word that's too bland. It's too broad. It covers too many things, right? We have rights and we have responsibilities.
We're not free to do everything we, like. We live in a society. We have to, you know, abide by the social contract. But I, you know, hold dear the idea that individuals should do those things that an individual can do. And of course, one of those things, of course, is, you know, making choices about your own health. Um, but it's not just that as well.
It's making choices. You have to be responsible for saving for your own retirement. You have to be responsible for raising your children. I do not want the government co-parenting with me, okay?
My children are my responsibility. And the other thing we have to do in the same way we have to empower the individual is that we have to restrain the authority of the government and the related organizations around it.
And that includes obviously the bureaucracy, which by the way, is the government, okay? One of the worst things I think you can do is, is think that the politicians are running this show because they aren't. Um, and if anyone's watched my clips of Senate estimates, and you've seen the way that these guys get away with blue murder, we have got to sort that out. But it's not just, you know, know the bureaucracies. It's our corporations.
We've now got these employers who, the, the vaccine mandates are a very good example. You know, where they've snuck in, you know, compulsory rules. They're, they're forcing people to get mandated.
And if you don't get mandated, you lose your job. In many cases, people aren't even getting their entitlements given to them. Or even worse, people go and get the vaccine, get injured, and still lose their job.
But that, that is still the tip of the iceberg. I mean, you know, in corporations are well, you know, have, you know, changed their, their view of the world, and they're more driven by ideology today than they are by productivity.
And that matters because we need our companies in that, you know, producing goods and services, put a roof over our head, food on our table, and, and generating enough profit and retained earnings that, you know, if anyone's an accountant in the room will know, goes into equity, so that we control the outcomes, not some unelected bureaucracy or, or foreign company from overseas.
Because it's very important that we give our children the same opportunities that our forefathers gave to us. That is, that is an obligation that we have, that is a responsibility. So sometimes that requires a bit of tough love. And, you know, I'll say something sexist here, but it is true.
Mothers are much better parents than fathers. I can tell you that because I'm a father and I'm, I'm a shocking father. I take my children for way too many milkshakes and biscuits and, and stuff like that. But, you know, it requires a bit of tough love. Um, and that's why, 'cause I always think, you know, my wife, she's always the one that does the hard yards with my children, and I always take the easy route out. But I'm, I'm getting better at that.
But anyway, I'm going off topic here. But, uh, you know, look, we've got, the other thing, of course, you know, they're not quite, they sort of are companies, but they're fund managers. And of course, you know, with superannuation, for example, they control over $3 trillion in wealth. Now, I mean, they have an enormous amount of power. You know, our industry super funds, there's 10 big ones, for example, combined vote.
They own, you know, over 20% of most of our major corporations here in Australia, they all use the same proxy, um, advisor. So that proxy advisor goes to an AGM, they control 23% of the vote, or, you know, somewhere between 20, 25% of the vote, uh, that they can, you know, control where we go in the world. They can, you know, make these decisions about renewable energy that's gonna result in you guys paying more money, uh, you know, for power, et cetera, et cetera.
They can make a lot of other rules as well. Uh, likewise with unions, we've gotta be careful when we talk about unions. I've got a bank account, I'm a bank customer. Does it mean I like banks or the executives? Of course not.
Um, you know, similar with unions, union members and union elites, right? The union members have sadly been very let down by the union elites with yet again, vaccine mandates. Um, so yeah, the key for me going forward is to make sure that, you know, we empower the individual and restrain those government organizations and their related entities with it. Now, unfortunately, we're gonna have to wait three years to do that again at a federal level. Um, but in the meantime, there's a number of ways that, you know, as a member of the opposition, we can try to control them. Uh, and we can have Senate hearings. Uh, so, you know, I'll have to try and work with, uh, the coalition as to, you know, organizing particular Senate hearings. Obviously, one will be on vaccine mandates, you know, the effectiveness of the vaccines.
Um, so we'll have to tailor some terms of that committee, you know, and try and get it up. Now, whether or not, unfortunately, Labor and the Greens have a complete majority, there's no more balance of power anymore.
So that was one of the things that restrained the Morrison or the coalition government of the last eight years. We always had a cross bench in the Senate, uh, that, you know, and not always, it wasn't always a bad thing I should point out. Um, uh, but we are going to find it very difficult going forward to get any sort of reference committee up.
So you have two types of committee in federal government. You have legislative committee, which is controlled by the government, and you have a references committee, which is controlled by the opposition. Now, there are levers for us to get certain references committees up, but if we go, we've gotta be careful how we do it, because if, if the government of the day doesn't like the particular references committee, they can car wash it in the Senate.
So our terms of reference are gonna have to be very restrained, and then we'll just have to be a little bit creative once we get the committee up and running. Um, but I think the way forward in regards to vaccine mandates and the vaccine rollout is going to lie in with the legal, um, fraternity. And, and effectively, uh, we've got one going on in the Supreme Court here in Queensland this week, uh, with the Queensland Police Force. And, you know, if there's anyone you know out there that's involved with that court case, please give them my best wishes 'cause I hope they get up. Um, I've spoken to Tony Nikolic, uh, he's a lawyer in Sydney.
He's got some court cases coming up. He's actually, uh, now I apologize for my ignorance when it comes to legal language, but he's apparently going to be able to take a, uh, an appeal to the High Court who was called Hazard, uh, KA versus Hazar last year. Um, it was in an absolutely, in my view, an obscene ruling where the judge said that, uh, forcing someone to get a vaccine if they want to go beyond five kilometers to work isn't coercion. Um, you know, really does need to be challenged because these guys are saying black is white, and I, I just can't, you know, so, so that's what we're going to have to do. Uh, I, I'm going to, you know, I, I'd like, there's a another class action that the Qantas pilots and employees are taking as well.
Um, but like all these things, it's from with legal, you know, um, cases that they take so long, uh, to get heard. And even then, you know, you can just have, you know, it's just like that. It's, it's the flick of a decision. So that is the way forward, I think. I mean, we will have a state election before the federal election, but that is still over two years away, what we are in May now, the next, uh, state election was October, 2024. Um, I do think the closer we get to that election, I think labor being, you know, and pache having one eye on the polls, if not two eyes, uh, will be, she eventually will, I think, relent on the mandates to a degree. Um, but I'll believe it when I'll see it. Um, you know, because, you know, we've all been very busy in the last eight months trying to overthrow these mandates, um, and stopped them. And we, you know, for the effort we've put in, we haven't really got the reward that we deserve.
And that's nothing against you guys. Um, because in, in many respects, I feel like, uh, we've been badly let down by our authorities at, at so many levels. Um, I can give you a rundown on the TGA you've probably seen, if you're following my Facebook page, you know, my views on that. Um, effectively I think we've been proven to be right, you know, eight months ago we were told that the vaccines were safe and effective.
And I mean, we had our doubts then, but we know now that they aren't, you know, never provided immunity, never stop transmission, never stop sickness, and hasn't stopped death. Um, there's a slight argument if you wanna believe what you read in the TGA, a nonclinical report, that the vaccines may have given a marginal short-term benefit. Uh, but that is, uh, in no way, uh, any, any reward for the long-term unknown risks and the obvious adverse events that, you know, had just so obvious and unfortunately have been gaslighted, um, you know, by our medical community. And, uh, which, you know, and when I said we've been let down by our authorities, you know, it's our doctors. I mean, I know it's tough being a doctor.
You spend so long studying, you know, you probably end up if it's, you know, most, most doctors today would have a HECS debt when they, they graduate hundreds of thousands of dollars, I guess. Um, but, uh, you know, ATAGI, you know, I argue Fair Work Australia, the bureaucrats, uh, and of course, you know, our politicians as well. Um, but that's where we're at and, and we have to move forward. Um, I think the best way to do that is legally. Um, but obviously I'll be using estimates as well. That's the other way politically I, is to try and embarrass the TGA in into such a point that they can no longer defend the indefensible.
Um, it just beggars belief. Uh, and I said this to Deb earlier tonight, pseudo ine a synthetic, um, genetic a gene, um, was put into the spike protein into the vaccine, which, you know, produces the spike protein. And it was that word, you know, that was not mentioned once in the TGA nonclinical report. Um, it just beggars belief. And, and the original study back in 2005 by bloke neighbor Kay Wiseman and someone else, you know, they, they, they identified that this particular pseudogene, um, can avoid the innate immune system and amplify the production of the spike protein. And that is the opposite of everything a vaccine should do.
You're supposed to have a weakened form of the virus, and, uh, it's, it's supposed to activate the immune system, not deactivate it. So, um, but anyway, look, I, I think I'd rather take questions from the floor tonight and let you guys, you know, vent, um, or, you know, whatever it is that you want to do, and I'm happy to take those, uh, answers. Um, so I'll leave it at that, uh, and I'll, um, I'll come back to you, um, when we open up to the floor for questions. Thanks.
