Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I will be supporting Senator Gallagher's motion. I, like her, have wider concerns about the virus campaign on which the government has embarked. On 23 March last year, a Monday, our first day sitting in this parliament with the virus, I supported the government on behalf of One Nation and said we expected the data and we expected the plan. Where is the plan? A vaccine is one strategy as part of a comprehensive plan to manage. There is no such plan. So I have wide concerns about the lack of a plan and the lack of data. There are seven strategies. I have checked this with the Chief Medical Officer in Senate estimates. I have checked with the Secretary of the Department of Health in Senate estimates.

The first one is lockdowns. Even the crooked, corrupt, incompetent, dishonest World Health Organization admits that lockdowns are to be used as a last resort and only initially to get control of the virus. Yet we've seen states using lockdowns repeatedly, which means they haven't got control of the virus. The virus is managing states. We see capricious lockdowns with one or two positive tests. We see people 2,700 kilometres from Brisbane, in Bamaga, wearing masks as an exercise in conditioning. So the first one is capricious use of lockdowns.

The second strategy is testing, tracing and quarantining. That has not been used properly in this country. There are countries overseas that have used it properly, with wonderful results. We have not. The third is restrictions—things like masks and social distancing. That has been used here, although we are told initially there was no need for masks, because there were no masks available. Then, when masks became available, we were told they must be used. They're a symbol of conditioning.

The fourth one is vaccines. And what a hazardous, disjointed mess that's turned out to be. I agree with Senator Siewert. I agree with Senator Gallagher. The people are concerned because we've had contradicting evidence and contradicting statements about vaccines. It's atrocious. People are scared because the government has terrified them with the uncertainty as well as the deaths from vaccine. I will talk more about that in a minute.

The fifth strategy that was signed off by the Chief Medical Officer and the Secretary of the Department of Health is the use of cures and prophylactics to treat people with the virus—successful antivirals dramatically proven overseas. They are low cost, safe—3.7 billion doses over six decades in the case of ivermectin—and now proven successful overseas and clinically.

The sixth one is personal behaviour—things like washing hands and personal hygiene. The seventh we have heard nothing about from this government, yet it's a well-known comorbidity: obesity. We need people to manage their own health and fitness.

That will provide a comprehensive plan. We see state and federal governments stumbling around vaccines, lockdowns and some restrictions. That's it. And our country is getting decimated economically—or was—because of it, and we are recovering slowly.

So I commend Senator Gallagher for moving this, because the government made a commitment yesterday and it needs to honour that commitment. We've had deaths from the vaccines—thousands of people overseas. We have had hundreds of people, after they received a vaccine, dying. We have a long delay between the death and the reporting of the death. We have a wide variety of side effects from the vaccine, including blood clots. The health minister himself had cellulitis and was hospitalised, and that is reportedly a known vaccine side effect. We've had the Chief Medical Officer, the Therapeutic Goods Administration and the head of the federal Department of Health refusing to declare that the vaccine is 100 per cent safe. How do they possibly get conditional approval?

The vaccine has failed to prevent transmission. How does that figure into a plan for managing the virus? The vaccine fails to stop someone getting the virus and getting sick. The intergenerational effects are not known. Now we have nurses talking about banding together because together they have power against a hospital or against an aged-care facility and because some of them are pregnant and don't know what the vaccine will do to their future child.

The dosage is unknown. The vaccine's effects against mutations are still unknown. The vaccine frequency is unknown. The number, the time of jabs—will we be required to do this annually? I won't be, but are people going to be jabbed forever? The vaccine fails to remove restrictions. The vaccine fails to open international borders. The vaccine makers have displayed a considerable lack of integrity, with fines of billions of dollars for misrepresenting their products. Health Minister Hunt summarises it so well with his words: 'The world is engaged in the largest clinical vaccination trial ever.' And I'm not a lab rat, and Australians should not be treated as a lab rat. Governments should be supplying the information freely and openly.

The vaccine showed that this is the first time in history that healthy people have been injected with something that will kill them. At the same time, we have a known, proven, safe, affordable drug, and sick people have been denied it in this country and in some other Western countries. As I said, ivermectin is off-patent and affordable. These are the things that need to be discussed and aren't being discussed. We need to start with the information that Senator Gallagher is wanting.

We learn that four pilots have died in British Airways employment in the UK after getting the jab. Will planes start falling out of the sky? Will nurses, especially pregnant nurses, concerned with the child they're carrying, band together as a mark of solidarity to prevent their children from being hurt by these vaccines?

I want to commend Senator Patrick. He pointed out quite clearly—and I agree with him—that there is no such thing as a national cabinet. Government is answerable to us, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The national cabinet is a fabrication. I support very strongly Senator Gallagher's motion and will be voting accordingly.