Guest speaker Senator Gerard Rennick can not remain silent while Australians are suffering from the management of COVID by the state and federal governments, bureaucrats and the mainstream media. We encourage you to join us to hear the realities as revealed to him on a daily basis. He will also share his suggested solutions to navigate out of the mess.
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Thank you. Okay. Uh, thank you very much for the applause. I appreciate it. Uh, it's unfortunate that we are really here tonight at all. Uh, and it is unfortunate that, you know, I am the center of attention because really, if we were doing what we should be doing, um, we should all be at home, living our lives, um, not in fear, um, not being prejudiced against.
And quite frankly, the sooner we get back to the way we were, not the new normal, but the old normal, the better. And, and can I just acknowledge Jewel tonight for inviting me here. She's always been a big supporter of mine and, and I appreciate all the support that she gives me. I should also acknowledge Malcolm Roberts in the crowd. Malcolm's a good friend and colleague of mine down in Canberra.
And I've got a few other friends, Greenie, uh, re wherever you are. Um, but anyway, let, let's, I, I guess, uh, get down to, uh, the main point, um, why we're here tonight. And it's a bit bit unusual. I'm not used to, uh, giving a speech about something whereby we are talking more about the fear and repression. Normally when I stand up, you know, I like to give the reasons why I ran for politics and, and the first and foremost reason why I ran was to make sure that we give our opportunity. I'm driven by the gratitude of our forefathers who've given us so many opportunities to make sure that our children get the same opportunities that our forefathers gave to us. Um, and it's very important if we are to do that, is to basically, you know, uh, appeal to our children's fear, uh, sorry, our hope, their hopes, uh, and promote self-belief.
And if you read my maiden speech, I brought a couple of copies along tonight. You know, I really talked about the importance of self-belief, uh, respecting your elders and that inner drive. Um, and that's, that's really the way forward. You know, I often think today of schools as being more like fear factories, where we're constantly telling them, you know, teaching our kids and infecting our kids with everything that could go wrong, rather than teaching them about how beautiful the world really is, how wonderful, uh, mankind is. Uh, and, you know, there's no substitute for things like hard work, reward for effort, et cetera, et cetera. Um, the other couple of things I'll just touch on before I I get into topic, I guess is, you know, I I also wanna make sure that we stand up for Australians who try to stand up for themselves. You know, for me, I don't see politics through the prism of left versus right.
I see it through the prism of big versus small and ultimately democracies. And, you know, I think mankind and, and, and a good societies driven by the individual, those people who get up every day and put their nose to the grindstone, uh, and try and stand on their own two feet. Because, you know, we often throw the word around freedom. You know, it's a word that gets thrown around a lot. Um, and, and I get a little bit annoyed with it sometimes, especially with some of my colleagues, uh, who use it a lot and suddenly have gone missing in action. Um, hint, hint. Um, but, uh, um, you know, true freedom is the independence and standing on your own two feet.
If you go to work and you've got a job and you know, you earn a wage and you can pay off your house and don't have a mortgage, you know, that is a long way towards going toward, you know, being free. Um, and you know, I know that a lot of people, you know, and it's probably very pertinent at the moment with the doctors and nurses, you know, who have ba basically been, you know, uh, extremely censored by AHPRA, the Australian health credential regulation.
I'm sure one of the, there's a lot of doctors and nurses out there that would love to quit their jobs or speak out, well, not quit their jobs, speak out, um, but they know that, you know, they're gonna lose their income and they're gonna lose their house and their mortgage. So I don't want to be, I'm, I'm very sympathetic to what's going on out there in the me medical community.
I've spoken to a lot of doctors and nurses who are very frustrated. They're still employed, um, particularly doctors, you know, they've spent six years studying at university, you know, another couple of years getting, becoming a GP, for example, in another couple of years in their specialty. So it's very difficult, um, to just walk away from that. I mean, I, I, I went to a college at University Queensland University, and I, I start, you know, I, I resided on a college with, with guys my age who did medicine, and I can, well remember seeing them in their early thirties. I'd already been overseas for seven years coming back, and I was still studying to be optometrists or, or, you know, dermatologists or, or surgeons or pediatricians. So, um, they're in a very tight spot at the moment, and that's why I'm more than happy to speak up for them. Um, and of course, the other reason why we've got here tonight, and this is always the third reason why I ran for politics, and I think it's become apparent in the last 18 months, is that in the last 40 years, governments have walked away from their responsibility of providing essential services to the people.
And they've done that because they've privatized all that infrastructure that was built and paid for by our parents, um, and that our parents built that, uh, so that they would leave, you know, their children, us, and, you know, our children, something behind.
Because the best way to ensure the sovereignty of a country is to basically make sure that we, we control our own sovereign wealth. Uh, and when it comes to things like monopolistic infrastructure, and you're right, um, that, you know, provides essential services, uh, generates income from those essential services, it's very important that governments, you know, have a say in the running of that. And when we've, you know, sold that it's either gone to foreign investors or superannuation funds, there's no accountability over how that that infrastructure is run. Um, and that also undermines the democratic process. And of course, what's happened is since all that infrastructure's been sold, what we've seen is governments and in particular bureaucrats, uh, you know, they've walked away from that responsibility of providing essential services.
And they've marched on into the family home, the classroom, the bedroom, the corporate boardroom via superannuation. And in the last 18 months, they've even walked into the, the hospitals and the doctor surgery telling people how to live their lives.
And that is not, it is not the role of government to regulate. It is the role of government to serve the people and protect the people. Um, I have a, I have a running battle with my colleagues in the liberal party because I, I'm, I call myself the last standing protectionist. Um, I'm not sure if you're familiar with the initial, uh, you know, the first party in Australia, you know, Barton and Deacon, they were protectionists. Um, and then they did a deal with George Reed, who was from the, uh, uh, free trade party. And about 1903, 1904, they've had to form a coalition to get the numbers to form government. And they called that the Fusion Party. Um, and effectively the Liberal Party for a long time was full of a lot of protectionists. But unfortunately, in the last 40 years, we've seen those protectionists disappear to the extent now that somehow the word protectionism is seen as you know, is a bad word.
And I make no apology for standing up as a politician wanting to protect my country, wanting to protect our children, uh, wanting to protect your jobs and wanting to protect our values. Uh, and, and I don't think that that's something we, we should be shy of. And that's not, you know, a lot of people like to see protectionism as though you wanna limit trade overseas. I mean, I'm all for increasing trade and exports overseas. I mean, we should always be trying to sell more goods overseas, but at the same time, we should never trade that, um, give up our, our ability to be self resilient and stand on our own two feet as a nation.
Um, and we don't want to get to the point whereby, you know, for example, we can't make enough masks, or we don't have enough petrol or fuel. Um, or even, you know, in terms of military, I think we'd be a bit rich to think we can ever be completely independent as a military nation because we are so small and isolated. But, you know, e even in that res regard as well, we have to try and be as independent as possible. Um, so which leads us to the debacle that we've basically, you know, come to in the last 18 months. I mean, when I signed up to be a politician two and a half years ago, I did not sign up to be part of a government. Um, and, you know, see, our state governments erode civil liberties to the extent that they have over the last 18 months. I mean, we originally shut down, and I was always a bit windy from the get go, I'll be honest.
And I was probably, um, you know, I sent a few text messages on the day we shut down and over that weekend saying, what, you know, why are we doing this? This is a bit rough. But, you know, originally, I think it was two weeks to flatten the curb. And here we are, 18 months later, and it's three, three jabs to keep your job, three jabs to, you know, I'll say three jabs. 'cause let's face it, if we don't stop this, we're gonna be forced to get boosters. Um, yeah. Um, so, uh, three jabs to even go out and eat, um, you know, the, the level of discrimination is effectively outta control. Um, look, whilst in many respects, I mean, it's, I, I don't wanna start trying to work out who's to blame.
I think we're all to blame. Um, you know, the premiers have just, I think how a lot of this came about was because of the bush fires, whereby we didn't stand up and say, hang on a minute, Bush fires has always been a state government responsibility.
They're the ones who run state emergency services. They're the ones that do the zoning. They're the ones that run national parks, right? And those bushfires broke out in 2018, 19, uh, 1920, sorry.
Um, uh, look, we were going through a bad drought, but we didn't start the fire as Billy Joel would say, you know, bushfires occur. Um, and we needed to make it very clear that, you know, this is a state government responsibility, and we didn't do that.
And then as a result of that, when Covid broke out, I think the Prime Minister felt like, well, I want everyone at the table here. I wanna be seen working together. Um, and while I think it was set up, you know, this national cabinet was set up with good intentions, I think it, it quickly, uh, evaporated, um, through politics, um, by, by the state premiers, and then, you know, ourselves not standing up to the state premiers soon enough and putting them back in their box, quite frankly. Um, uh, so, you know, gradually we've just seen that slow creep. I, I, I can remember when, you know, I think this first talk of the vaccine, and when it first came out, we were only gonna give it to people above 50. Uh, and then gradually the age group got lowered. Um, you know, the trials were rushed. I mean, I've got an article that was, uh, came out last year in September where the, who actually said that the vaccine wouldn't even be ready by the middle of this year. Um, and yet, six weeks later, after Biden was elected, within a week, I think there were two companies that said they'd had a vaccine for the coronavirus, even though they hadn't been able to find one in the last 40 years.
Um, I've got a little bit of experience in biotech sector, just through personal investing in drug companies for, um, cancer, you know, drug, drug cancer, drugs. Um, and, you know, obviously if you get cancer, you've got a much higher chance of dying from cancer than you do from Covid for most of the population. And those trials take years. They take years.
Um, and, uh, you know, I, I also did a partial science degree actually, and it was biochemistry that I was always interested in. I still am. Um, so I was always a bit skeptical at the speed at which it was rushed out. Um, but look at, at, you know, I, I was equivocal at first, you know, I figured, well, you know, we'll give it a go. Um, and my initial view was, look, there was a low risk of dying from Covid.
There's a low risk of the back dying from the vaccine. Um, I'm not gonna tell you what to do. You need to speak to your doctor. Um, and, you know, you get diagnosed and you make that decision with your doctor.
It's none of our business. We, you know, make the, you know, the vaccine available. Um, as time has gone on, I've seen more and more coercion, which always makes me very suspicious, um, especially with something so intensely personal, as, you know, needles going into your body. Um, uh, and it would've been different.
It would've been something like tetanus or something that we'd all had before that we knew was safe. But, um, you know, I, I, I, yeah, I mean, the new technology, the mRNA technology, you know, I always felt, you know, we needed to give it a, a lot longer trial. And anyway, um, but after, particularly in the last six weeks, as I've heard the stories come out, um, I'm convinced that, well, I'm almost, I, I'm at the view that we really need to reassess whether that vaccine rollout should continue, because I, I've seen so many adverse events from younger people. Um, I mean, I, I, I wouldn't want to, um, give a complete blanket, say, don't do it.
I mean, I, I hate to tell people what to do, but I think we need to be incredibly honest about the risks, especially for young people, um, given that their risks of dying from covid or getting severely ill from Covid if they're young, fit and healthy. Um, and young is an, obviously a relative term.
I mean, I'm 51 and I still think I'm young, so, um, uh, but certainly, you know, relatively on a, on a relative risk basis, we need to be more honest about that. This whole blanket mandate, blanket coercion, everyone get it. And not only that, I spoke to a doctor today, actually, and I think he summed it up best. He said, you know, the doctors have been gagged in all of this, and yet all the people who aren't experts, like politicians and celebrities, and, and the people at Bunnings, they're the ones giving the vaccine advice. Um, and, and, you know, and, and I spoke to another doctor earlier this week who was incredibly frustrated by the fact that people weren't being told to get diagnosed first, because a lot of people have genuine medical reasons why they can't get the vaccine. Um, and, and I think it's incredibly, uh, um, unprofessional and, and reckless to be just saying, get the jab. I mean, it's just so, um, you know, uh, they've just broken it down into such a simple slogan that it, it just, you know, it, it's an insult to people and it's, it's, it's, it's effectively reckless. So, um, uh, yeah. Um, uh, so look, I mean, I, I got to the point, I, I found out a few weeks ago, I suppose it all sort of came to a head for me.
I mean, I was always getting skeptical. I was never happy with the coercion or anything like that when I, when the exit target first came out, um, oh, I thought it's good they've got an exit target, but I didn't realize it was gonna become an excuse to start just demonizing people and keeping borders shut indefinitely and, and locking people out.
So my initial frustration, well, I had a lot of frustrations, right? You know, I have a lot of frustrations in this job all the time, but the one that really annoyed me about six weeks ago is when Queenslanders were being locked out of Queensland. Um, and there's thousands of them being treated as refugees in their own country.
And the incredibly annoying thing about that is, is that I don't understand why, and I don't think this needs to continue forever either, but if you've got tested negative to Covid, then you shouldn't be detained at all. I mean, I come back from Canberra by the time I've go to Canberra next week.
I've got two weeks in Canberra. I come back and do another two weeks of quarantine. By the time I get out of that, I would've spent 15 weeks in quarantine or Canberra in the last 20 weeks.
Aand for every two weeks I go to Canberra, I've gotta do another two weeks in quarantine. And so I, I'm not even doing the job that you guys pay me to do because I'm stuck in quarantine. Um, well, I am, I'm sort of doing it via social media and electronically, but, um, uh, you know, it's just, this is ridiculous. If you test negative, I always do get, I do a test before I fly down and do a test before I fly back, just in case I, you know, it goes around a plane. Um, but that's it. And if you test negative, as far as I'm concerned, they've got no right to detain you. I mean, they don't really have a right to detain you anyway. But I mean, I'm happy to, you know, in, in spirit of nature, say, well, you know, you've got covid stay at home for a certain period of time, whatever. I mean, we don't wanna spread it around more than we have to, but, you know, it's completely ridiculous to be detaining people for 14 days. And it really grinds my gears on another level, because we keep hearing how this PCR test is the gold standard testing.
So if it's the gold standard testing, why won't you trust it instead of locking us up for 14 days? You know, it's this, you know, and, um, yeah. And then of course, the other thing is, of course, you know, if you test negative gold standard testing, and then you've still gotta wear the mask as well. I mean, it's, it's, um, and if the masks are so effective, why do you need to be vaccinated? It, like, they're just, there isn't a level, there isn't one level where it's just, you know, we, we'll just, you know, show everything out. And the masks are particularly frustrated because when Covid did break out Queensland Health, the, the World Health Organization, a lot of people said, you don't even need to wear masks. And that's all changed in the last 18 months.
Now, you know, a virus, an airborne virus is an airborne virus. I would've thought they would've had a good enough understanding of it in March, 2020. Um, you know, we, we'd come a long way by March, 2020.
I don't see that there would've been any new technology to come up with a different, you know, to change the rules halfway through. So, um, but anyway, look, we, we need to get out of this, right? Enough's enough. Um, and so where I got to the point where I just thought I can't do this anymore, was the vaccine injuries was about four weeks ago.
I had three conversations with three different people. Um, one was, uh, Chantel Joran from Western Australia, a lovely, uh, 37 year old police woman dedicated to her job, loves her job. She got the Pfizer shot. Um, she was seeing the doctor every second day for about three weeks, and finally had a stroke on the 23rd day after getting Pfizer. She has been in and outta hospital ever, ever since. Um, uh, so that was, I think late August or, or sometime in September. So she's been in and outta hospital for the last two months.
She was in hospital about four, three weeks ago for three days. And she had 18 IV potassium, no IV inject drips in that three day period, including potassium. Um, I spoke to her again today. She's back in hospital again today. She's gonna get a gallbladder taken out tomorrow. Um, or, or yeah, is it, she, it's a gallbladder. So I think it's getting taken out, or they're doing, they're operating on a gallbladder. I think they're taking it out now.
She was beat up on Tuesday by the West Australian who accused her of spreading Covid misinformation. Chantel doesn't smoke, she doesn't drink, she rides horses. She's extremely fit. She knows her body, right? She was immediately ill 15 minutes after taking that vaccine.
It is bad enough. And then what's worse is she put a post up about her experience on Facebook, and the police force made her take it down and threaten disciplinary action.
Right? Now, it is bad enough to be told by your government that the vaccine is safe and effective, right? But it is worse when something happens and you are shunned by the very people that not only have lied to you, but are meant to protect you and stand up for you. Now, we have heard from the premiers and the Prime Minister for the last 18 months that they're gonna keep us safe, more so the Premiers. Um, but keeping you safe isn't just keeping you safe from Covid. It's keeping you safe from everything. And these people deserve to be treated with respect. And quite frankly, they've been treated like worse than animals. You know, we wouldn't treat our animals like this. It is degrading what has happened. Um, Chantel has coped so much abuse. It's, it's just, and when and when she went to the back, she was telling me this story.
She went to the vaccine clinic thinking safety clinic, thinking she was going to be given advice on how to deal with the stroke. Do you know what they wanted her to do? Take take the second shot, take the second shot. She was there with three other women about her age, and they were all told the same thing. And when I heard that, I just couldn't believe it, right? And anyway, so then I finally got in touch.
I made this call a few weeks earlier, but he got back in, touched me a guy up here. I won't name his name 'cause he wants to stay anonymous, but 31 year old school teacher, just bought a house, got the AZ shot on a Friday parallel, paralyzed down his right hand side by Tuesday, you know, fell hot over the weekend off, you know, uh, basically has been in a bedridden or in a wheelchair since that time. I think he's managed to sort of get a little bit more mobility back in his right arm and a little bit in his foot. I think he's slowly on the mend, but he's had no income in that time.
And the only time he heard from Queensland Health, why did Queensland Health call him? It's tell him to get the second shot, you know? And he was trying to explain, well, actually, I got paralyzed on the first shot. Uh, I don't want the second shot.
And of course, he's gonna be one of these people impacted by the vaccine mandates because the doctors are basically being told that they're gonna get de-registered. Well, you know, not in directly, but are being warned that if they try and undermine the vaccine rollout, uh, then, you know, they could be threatened with deregistration. But of course, the vaccine rollout is a means to an end. And that, of course, is to protect our health. But if the vaccine rollout isn't doing that, then we stop the vaccine rollout, right? It's that simple. Okay.
And the third one happened on the Saturday. That weekend. I got a message from a bloke, um, saying, look, this is Sienna Knowles. Um, Sienna's very public. Um, I talk to her mother most probably every third or fourth day. Um, and Sienna's a 19 year old girl, uh, I didn't realize at the time, but she's quite well known in equestrian circles, very fit. Um, and she got massive clots in her legs and her lungs. Um, and in the end, it took her about a week and a half to get properly, or maybe two weeks to get diagnosed, but she's got a pulmonary embolism. Um, and so, and she's, she's on and off as well. So she hasn't recovered. She's still struggling. Um, and her mother's still struggling. They both got the Pfizers shot. That was second one.
Admittedly, they, neither of 'em felt great after the first one, but went ahead and got the second one. Um, they let Sienna drive home when she first went to the hospital on the Friday night. Like, they should never have let her drive the clots in her body. I mean, and, uh, they wouldn't, I think, I can't remember the, 'cause I get mixed up here, but I'm not sure if they admitted it was the vaccine originally. Wouldn't admit that the vaccine, but the same story, and I hear this all the time, they'll admit verbally, but they'll never write it down. The doctors will never write it down.
Now, I've also got someone, um, a, a whistleblower that has, that I now have within AHPRA who has told me that doctors have basically been red flagged if they write exemptions. I mean, this is the, you know, this, this is it, mate. This is the Orwellian nightmare coming, coming true, unfortunately. Um, and then basically after that, the floodgates open. But, you know, I, I've got stories of a wonderful, beautiful woman in, uh, Tweed Heads who basically is a hairdresser, hasn't been able to work since June's pretty much been paralyzed, paying $400 a month for potassium IV injections. Now, I, I don't know, you know, and she's been bedridden, she's fallen outta bed once, broke her ankle.
Um, she, I spoke to her yesterday, she's on the mend. She can now stand up for a little bit of time, but she has to get back in bed by three o'clock in the afternoon. And that's on the mend. You know, that bad state that, you know, you're on the mend for a few hours where you can stand on your own two feet for a few hours or, or at least get some mobility. Um, but, you know, you're basically bedridden by three o'clock in the afternoon.
She's about my age, no income since June. We've got this indemnity scheme that doesn't start paying out, um, until next year. Well Hunt's saying next month, but it may as well be next year. He's only saying next month. 'cause I'm pushing it to come forward, like I should be open now. Um, uh, and it's an expression of interest. You've gotta do an expression of interest.
No, no, no. It's, it's a compensation claim. Let's stop using the Orwellian terms here. Kicks in at $5,000. So, you know, if you've only spent $4,000, that's tough luck. You are outta money. Uh, you are outta pocket for a vaccine that was supposedly safe and effective.
And it occurred to me yesterday, why they've got such a high threshold is because they're hoping that people below that threshold don't apply. So we don't get to see the true number of people with adverse events because we know we can't trust the TGA on so many levels, and we'll get to that one later on. But that, that would take after night.
We might have to book it in the second, second one. Don't start me with a TGA, and I'm sure Malcolm would rip that microphone outta my hands and get up here and want to take my spot. Um, uh, so, um, uh, I'm not sure where I was going there. So that was, uh, um, Sue Ann conversation. Oh, conversation, sorry. Yeah.
And then the onus of proof is now on the, on the victim to prove that it was caused by the vaccine. Now, you know, I'm sorry here, but the onus of proof needs to be on the government, that it wasn't the vaccine.
If you are a fit able person who's had a serious impact adverse event 28 days after the vaccine, then oh, you know, and 28 days is, you could probably argue a lot later than that, but I'll just say 28 days to this stage. Um, uh, yeah, it probably needs to be longer, but it's gonna get tricky, that one. But, um, there, there is no question, right? Like, it, it's gotta be, you know, the government needs to prove that it wasn't the vaccine. Now, we're gonna come up with a clash heads here. I'm gonna clash heads here. We certainly clashed already with Scar, the head of the TGA last week. And I gave him the example.
I was talking to him how this onus approved has gotta change. And I quoted the example of the guy in Toowoomba who got paralyzed three days after taking his vaccine. And Scarat just came in and said, well, paralysis isn't the side effect of the vaccine. And I, and I was in shock, you know, and I said, how can you say that? Um, and he goes, oh, it's population epidemiology. So many people a year get paralyzed.
And that's, that's the excuse. And I, and I straight away went back at him and I said, well, hang on, 17,000 a year, 17,000 people died in 2019 from respiratory related diseases.
If that's the case, why didn't you use the word population epidemiology with covid to say that, you know, people die from respiratory disease, right? Uh, and look, I don't wanna downplay the risk of covid respiratory diseases, especially if the infection gets into your lung is a serious issue, right?
We shouldn't be downplaying that, but there's other ways to deal with that apart from just vaccines. And, um, I'll, I'll get onto that topic later on, but yeah. Yeah, we'll, we'll get on that topic in a minute. But, um, so, and because I went down that angle of the population epidemiology, I didn't say to him in the meeting, I'm annoyed with myself.
But the other thing is, I actually, it was my grandfather, I remember he, he passed away when I was eight. But my last, my, my memories of my grandfather was lying in the hospital bed at one day, paralyzed because he'd had a stroke, um, from a clot. And always remember that. And it suddenly occurred to me after the meeting that, you know, paralysis and strokes are caused by clots. And of course, Scarad admits that clots are a site, uh, recognized side effect.
So if they're a recognized side effect, how can you then discount, you know, the flow on effect from them, you know, so, so it's just beggar's belief that he would say that.
But this is the little trick they've got. They're taking the Pfizer trial, and Pfizer said, these are the recognized side effects, and if it's not on the list, then we're not gonna count it. So, you know, you go to the doctor and say, I think it's caused by, I've got this, uh, adverse event, it's caused by the vaccine. And the doctor goes, well, here's the list to recognize, side effect not on there. Therefore, it's not related to the vaccine. I mean, that's, that's completely absurd, right? I mean, you've gotta diagnose the patient, you've gotta do a certain number of tests, et cetera, et cetera. So, I mean, and I can't, when I'm saying this, this is a generalization. So maybe, you know, I'm sure some doctors are out there doing proper tests and you know, you, you're gonna get a varying, you know, a, you know, varying ray of, um, service from various doctors.
And, you know, I, I suspect I said this earlier to someone today, you'll have the labor prone doctors who will say to people, and this is some of the feedback I've got, that it's all in your head. Um, that's, these are comments that have come back, and then you'll have other doctors who are probably quite feeling very guilty, um, about what's going on and, and are struggling, you know, with what's going on. But, um, so, you know, after, and then the following week, I, I posted Chantel's story, um, I posted Sienna's story, um, uh, and then it just took off there. And I had people contact me and I put the stories up, and I've been, you know, talking to people basically ever since for about the last four weeks. And, and it, you know, it, it's, it's terrible. I mean it, and if I could summarize, it's, it's the severity of the adverse events. It's how widespread they are.
And it's also, um, the, the, the treatment that people have been getting, you know, people are being, you know, shunned basically, both by doctors and, you know, I, I've got, you know, people are attacking me or, or attacking these people as anti-vaxxers. I mean, that is just disgusting.
I mean, these people actually took the vaccines so they can hardly be called anti-vaxxers. And to break that argument down into a vax versus anti-vax thing, it's like anything you should, like, I always say, judge, the individual, not the identity. It's the same for vaccines.
You've gotta judge each vaccine on, on its own merits. And I did a post this afternoon at quoting numbers out of the World Health Organization Adverse Event database. There's been more adverse events from this vaccine in the last year than there has been from all from about 15 other medications, I think vaccines and certain other medications in the last, you know, four decades. Um, so we can't ignore that, that, that the inherent risks in this vaccine, number one, and a lot of those other vaccines are for diseases, much worse than Covid in terms of, you know, COVID has got a 99 and a half, I think the, the case fatality rates up to six in a thousand for the Delta this year.
It was higher last year for Alpha, but that was skewed by the Victorian Health fiasco where, you know, my understanding is, is that staff were pulled, um, and couldn't work.
And then effectively, you know, people were left in aged care homes under staffed, hence why they didn't get the service. And, and I don't think they were sent to hospital when they should have been, because there's a bit of an argument coming here, and we've gotta deal with this. I'll go slightly off topic. Um, you know, the state government have called an inquiry today, and I actually spoke about this in the party room a few months ago, whereby the state governments are gonna start blaming their health system on the federal government, whereby the aged care sector's not good enough, or, or NDIS isn't good enough. Now, that may be true, but you know, basically they're gonna say if someone's an old person in, in aged care center and they, they're sick, they're gonna argue, well, that person can't come to hospital. Alright, well, that's not the way it works.
Aged care centers aren't hospitals. They're there for healthy old people. Once that person gets sick, they should go to hospital, but the states are gonna start passing the buck. What they always do, um, in terms of, um, uh, you know, not, not, not meeting their, their requirements.
So, so the case fatality rate's about six and a thousand, but then I compare, but then on top of that, you've gotta remember that if you look at Sweden, they've stayed open pretty much the last 18 months.
I think they did have a short brief lockdown at one point, but they're are, they're an example that we can use for what would've happened if we'd stayed open. They've got about one point, they've had about 1.1 million cases of covid, and they've got a population of about 10.5 million people. So they, their infection rate's been about one in 10. Um, the UK's about one in seven or eight, um, now they've got a 9 million people infected. So yeah, about one in seven, one in eight, the US is about one in seven, one in eight. So not everyone's gonna get covid as well. And you've gotta remember, we're a various sparsely populated country outside of Sydney and Melbourne, um, in to, to a lesser extent, Brisbane, maybe, you know, it, it covid is not gonna spread as rapidly. And we've got a longer, you know, we have shorter winters. They're not as cold say compared to Sweden, which has got, you know, a much, I think they're 450 million square kilometers, about a quarter size of Queensland with twice the population.
So, you know, whether or not we even had a case fatality rate, well, I, I wouldn't know. We'll never know. Um, but long, long story short is that we have to do something about, first and foremost, the indemnity scheme for those people who've suffered adverse events. So I, I, I just, you know, look, look, I mean, I get, you know, when you join a major party, I know a lot of you guys don't like major parties, and that's fine. I totally get why, um, I, except, um, you know, when I, when I decided to run for a major party that there were times I was gonna have to drink the Kool-Aid, and, you know, you're not always gonna agree with everything your party does. Um, but there's some things you just can't do. And, and some things are ideological.
Um, but the one thing I can never do is walk away from the wellbeing and health of the Australian people and the damage, you know, and, and not, um, And, and, and say nothing while people are being injured and hurt and, and, and potentially killed. Um, uh, you know, like that's, this has gone beyond politics. You know, it's funny, I was talking to Sue last night, the lady of the tweet heads, she doesn't even know what, she didn't even know what party I was in.
She didn't know what party k she was in. Uh, she and I had to explain to her the Senate and stuff like that, and she said, well, I don't care. I'm just gonna vote for you. And, um, and, and the beauty of that was what I really liked about that. It was so refreshing to have a conversation based on true outcomes rather than the ideology and the mud slinging. And I'm, I mean, I, I hate the left verse, right? I hate, I hate politics. I actually hate being a politician.
I never thought I'd, I never thought I'd see the day where I really wish could I could go back to being an accountant, sitting in the back room, just, just crunching numbers and, you know, not having to, you know, deal with this crap. But, you know, I also ran outta frustration, uh, through my knowledge of tax and monetary policy, which we can talk about another night. But, um, uh, we, you know, I, I, I'm not gonna, you know, allow this to happen.
It's not just the adverse event injuries, it's the discrimination. It's, you know, against people. It's the mandates. It's, you know, we're not letting this, you know, I'm, I'm gonna fight this, that, that hill, the one hill I will die on the most is vaccinating our children. I mean, and it's just not needed. Um, and, um, and then, and then also of course, the border crossings. I mean, it's this constant, you know, looking over your shoulder. I mean, I'm still getting used to not needing to wear a mask. I keep thinking, you know, it's still, um, I've been in quarantine a bit longer, so maybe you guys have got used to it again. But, you know, it's just, it's just this whole fear factor, you know, and, and thinking, oh, you know, and I, I'm always thinking, oh, I've gotta be careful because if I catch Covid, I can't go to Canberra to vote or, or not vote.
Um, and then if I come back, you know, I don't want my bring Covid back from Canberra and then give it to my kids. My kids go to school and they get demonized. 'cause Dad brought Covid back from Canberra. Um, I mean, I know like, you know, you shouldn't think like that, but that's sort of the psychology we are living in now, where the pile on, uh, occurs all the time. So I, I've decided I'm just gonna withhold my vote from the coalition until such time, uh, as we deal with a number of issues, which I'll outline in a minute. Because until, Because until we deal with the psychosis of Covid, we will never move forward as a country. And, you know, there's some, probably arguably some important bills coming over the next few weeks that, you know, I, I'm gonna struggle not to vote for or against, but I will vote against a couple if they do come up. But, um, uh, we just have to nail this. We've got to stop what's going on.
We are actually at 84% double jabbed now for people over 16, right? So if you'd have said to the Prime Minister and the premiers last year, would you take a country being 84% double Ja, they would've said yes.
So they would've flushed at it with open hands, and that'll probably climb a bit because, you know, people are still, there's still some people out there will get. So what is it going to take to, to get on and get back to the way we were? Um, and well, well, an election won't solve it because we'll, if we, if, um, no, hang on, it's, the election won't solve it. I wanna be clear about this.
I'm not trying to bring down the coalition because as frustrated as I get with the coalition, if labor get in, trust me, they'll will be worse. Okay? Like, like, um, the only, the only consolation is we might get few of that, more of our guys speaking up, um, that might curtail what they might get away with, but I, I just think Albanese working in tandem with the likes of Andrews McGowan and that they'll be locking down forever and a day, right? Um, so, uh, this is the thing. It's not about, and I'm not doing, so it's not, I'm not trying to achieve, um, you know, play games or get attention. It's about we've gotta get this issue resolved. Um, and there's just, you know, ev every, nothing else matters to me at the moment until we get that resolved, because it just is, it's impacting our lives on so many levels. Um, and I'll just, before, I'll, just before I go into these issues,
I'll touch it as I'll go through. So obviously the, the five, the five demands that I've put to the Prime Minister, and I sort of wish I'd put a few more, but I'll touch on them after, is obviously this indemnity scheme, right? I don't care what it takes, we've gotta look after those people who've been injured.
We've spent over $300 billion on keeping people safe from Covid. If it is gonna cost 10 billion in, in compensation to help these people, that's what we spent, right? There's, there's no, there's no, there's no trade off there, right? And as I said, you know, the R B A prints five, $4 billion a week, although we're printing five, it's like, not that I condone, you know, the money printing, but if we can print money for Covid, we can print money to save these people, right? So we can't be, we can't be short-changing the number one. Number two is we can't make people lose their jobs over these mandates. It's just not right.
Now, look, I I, I'll be honest, if you, if you went and started a job and they said to you, part of your job was to get a vaccine, because that's what we need in the job, I, I, I could live with it on two conditions. Number one, the thing was safe and effective. Um, so if it was a TEUs shot or on, I think with the avatar workers, they have to get a Q Fever shot, I'm told, and that, but they sign up to that, they're told they've gotta get a Q Fever shot. They go, sure, I'm not sure what the safety profile of the Q Fever shot is, but I haven't heard sort of horror stories about it, so I assume it's safe.
I can live with that. Right? And so in terms of hospital and aged care centers, if they're told they've gotta take a, a, a safe and effective vaccine, which I don't think includes the covid to 19 vaccines, um, I I could live with it if they're up upfront about it, right?
But they can't change the law halfway through because that's double standards. We know that because basically Peter Reid lost his court case a few weeks ago because it was what is in his contract.
He wasn't technically wrong for speaking out, it was he got in trouble, not for what he said about the reef and accusing the other people of, of not being correct about their research. It was the fact that speaking out was against his contract, right? So because, you know, uh, if they're gonna apply, well, what's in your contract, then they need to apply that here.
And if it's not in your contract and it's not stipulated what vaccines in your contract, that's it. Um, so they've gotta be consistent. Number three is, I don't think people, and this is kind of fits in with the mandate, but a little bit more specific, you cannot make people who had an adverse event from any vaccine in the past, but particularly from the, the covid ones, you know, like Matt that I just mentioned before from Toowoomba or, or Chantelle get a second one. Like, like that is just inhumane, right? I mean, why if they've been injured?
And, you know, it's interesting, I've got another lady who I posted her video, she's pro-vax, you know, she got her daughter vaccinated. She, she was feeling ill after her first shot and a bit wobbly in the legs and thought, oh, you know, I think it's the vaccine. And then she went and saw the doctors and they said, no, it's not the vaccine. You had an underlying condition. She trusted her doctor went and got the second shot, you know, got the neurological disorder, can't walk, you know, um, et cetera, et cetera. She, she can sort of walk with a wobbling stick and wobbles. And, um, but even then she wasn't annoyed about taking the second shot because she thought she was with the one in a million chance.
What ticked her off was she lodged an adverse event pain with the TGA only to be called up about a month later by the TGA and said, no, your, your, your injury isn't caused by the vaccine. And she was like, but hang on, you haven't even diagnosed me. You haven't even spoken up, spoken on the phone to me or anything. You, you've just rung me up, rung me up, and said, it's not related. And so ironic, you know, it's funny how different things tick off different people, but she was of the view, that's what ticked her off was like, hang on, you're not taking this seriously. Um, so you just can't make people get the third shot, sorry, the second shot, you know, you know, if they've had an adverse or, or the third shot, um, uh, the, the fourth, the fourth condition was, yeah, I, I just see no reason to give it to our children, right? We've had over, um, uh, Had over 60,000 people, uh, children or 50,000, I think it's almost 60, it was 50,000 a few weeks ago, so it's probably close to 60,000 children under 20 get covid.
And there's been two that have passed away with Covid. One had meningitis, I think, and I didn't know what the other comorbidity was, but, um, I, I just think that it's still being, uh, you know, it's, we've, we've, well, we've got bad data. If you ask me in terms of safety profile, we've already now, you know, even the mainstream of media that admit that it, it transmits just as, uh, you know, it doesn't make much difference if you're vaccinated or unvaccinated in terms of transmission. Um, and you can still catch it. So the, the, well, yeah, so, um, what's the point period, but even more so with our children, who by the way, have less what they call ace receptors on the cell. So that's the, that's the receptor that that covid, uh, virus binds to. Um, and that's why children are less inclined to, to get seriously ill from Covid.
So they, it's not only statistically they don't get it, if they actually understand the mechanism for why they don't get it, it's, it's well understood. And what's particularly frustrating about this is in the October 20 t g a report, there was a 14 year old girl who's been a reported death from Moderna.
Now it's a reported death. So, you know, technically we can't, you know, prove causation and I don't have all the data, um, say that it is. But surely if you've got a child who's a reported death from the vaccine, you using the precautionary principle that has been used against us for every other thing in Covid, wouldn't you use that with our children?
If you were ever gonna use the precautionary principle, you would use it on our children. So shouldn't the, the, the rollout of the, the vaccination vaccines for children be, at very least I'd stop it, but the very least paused until they investigated that, that, and, and yet, you know, it still rolls on and, you know, Hunt's talking about he's invited the te uh, Pfizer to apply for, uh, approval for five to 11 year olds. Um, well, I've got three children before between, uh, four and nine. Um, so you know, this is gonna be the hill that I die on with those vaccinations and children, I don't care. Um, Uh, and then, and, and not only, even if it is optional, we've got children now who can't go to their school formals in New South Wales and Victoria because their parents don't want them vaccinated.
So not only are we, if they're not, you don't wanna expose 'em to 'em, they're being discriminated against. I mean, since when do you discriminate against children? This is, I've been told, I I've been told on by, you know, insiders in the New South Wales place, it's why they pushed the dec, the New South Wales opening back to December 15 was so that all the kids who wanted to go to SCHOOLIES would have to get vaccinated. You know, like, like that was their thinking, you know, to get the numbers up. I mean, you just can't make this stuff up. Well, actually you can, because when it comes to bureaucrats, they, they'll make, they'll make any rule possible if they, there's a rule doesn't exist, you know, they'll push it and then, you know, and then make it a rule, you know, they'll, they'll just invent something outta thin air for the sake of it.
So, and the last condition was, you know, the borders need to open it, even with the Palmer High decision, which I disagree with, but, you know, the, the high court judges ruled that if, if there's a risk of, you know, people getting sick and it's unknown, you can apply the precautionary principle and therefore allow the premiers to shut the borders. Now, I, I disagree with it at the time because free intercourse amongst the states means just that, right? It wasn't, you know, free intercourse amongst the states, but this, this, this, and this, it was just free intercourse, right? Mm-hmm. Um, well, given now that we're 84% jabbed, given that we now know that the case fatality rate is no higher than the mortality rate in 2019, which was 6.9 people per thousand, so the case fatality rate from Covid isn't higher than the mortality rate. Um, and notwithstanding that, you know, you're only, you know, assume using Sweden's figures, you've got a one in 10 chance of catching it anyway.
So your ca case fatality rate at this stage is six in 10,000. Um, well, you know, enough's enough. So the, the government really needs to go back to the high court and say, we don't, you know, we think the, the premier should open if, if it was left to me, I think we should have told Cly Palmer not to go to high court last year.
We should have done it as the federal government. We should have been seen, um, as, as, as, as the national government protecting our country, right? Because at the end of the day, I was born in Queensland, I was raised in Queensland, I love Queensland, but I'm always an Australian first and foremost. Um, you know, and, um, you know, the only divides is, I like to say between, you know, the state should be between, you know, Aussie rules and Rugby league, uh, Holdens and Fords, and effectively the type of beer you drink, you know? And, um, uh, and unfortunately we don't have any divides anymore with the cars. Um, you know, and, and you know, the, the grs not quite like it used to be, but anyway, that's another story for another day.
But, um, uh, but this division between the states and the division between the vaccinated and unvaccinated has gotta stop it. It's too far. Um, there are a couple of other things that I think are worth addressing. You know, I've, I've spoken about the health impact. We've got the cost of Covid, which is a trillion dollars, and then we've got, with, with these vaccine mandates, they're also, um, creating a legal minefield because the idea that an employer or an employee can be responsible for an airborne virus, in my mind, is just absurd. You know, like, you know, how on earth are you gonna trace where these people, you know, if someone catches covid, where they caught it from, you know, and, and then we are asking the employees and the employers who've just come out of 18 months of lockdowns and, you know, have seen their businesses destroyed and their livelihood destroyed.
These governments are now asking, the state governments are now asking the businesses to police their laws. Yeah. Like, you know, they've got enough problems on their own, you know, on their own plate to then have, you know, asking, you know, and, and that impacts the employee as well. I mean, you might have a diminutive waitress who you know is, is serving coffees and that, and then you're asking her to tell some six foot two unvaccinated guy, you know, who's, you know, not like, doesn't like having his, uh, privacy invaded about his health records. And, you know, I can understand why he'd be upset about that, but you know, you don't wanna put that, you know, a person. Uh, it's not fair to ask a person to police that, you know, you, you, you're putting them at risk as well. Um, so, you know, it's, it's illegal minefield as well, these mandates as well as a civil, you know, destruction of civil liberties. Um, as well as, you know, you're risking people, you know, you're risking, and this is this, this blanket vaccination approach. I, I don't agree with it, right?
Because you are asking 20 million people to expose themselves to vaccine injury risk, as I just said. You know, one in 10 people assuming that Sweden's infection, fatality rate, and then 1% of people of that, so say one in a thou, one in 10,000 people might get seriously ill from, uh, COVID or say two in 10,000.
Wouldn't we be much better off treating them with various treatments? And ivermectin is a word, um, or, you know, there's other treatments as well, right? Like there's dexamethasone if you get really crook, um, and there's, uh, other steroids they can give them, um, uh, and focus on them. Because at the end of the day, you don't protect the weak by destroying the strong.
And I don't wanna impute motive tonight, but there is no reason to destroy the strong if you want to protect people's health. So we can't do that. Um, the other thing that needs to happen is we need to clean out some of the bureaucrats who pause this in the favor.
And, and of course, the, the, the, the top of that the head of that, of course, is scar. Um, uh, professor Scarat, who in, in my view, I, I feel as though he, if he hasn't deliberately lied to me, um, and I can't say that he has, um, but I feel as though he has misled me on a number of times, uh, occasions. Um, one good example of where I think he's gonna get himself in a very big trouble, and I'm, you know, I advertise this fact, he said to John Laws earlier this year around July, that the vaccines are 99.999% was that four dots after four nines after the safe. Okay? So in other words, he's implied that one in a million people would have an adverse event. Now, given that 20 million people have had, you know, let's assume 20 million people get two shots, that would be 20 people who've had adverse, you know, well, that's not the case at all, right?
We've had at least 10,000 applied to the indemnity scheme. We've got 77,000 on the TGA database. They may not all be serious adverse events. Um, but I also would suspect that, you know, those adverse events are severely under-reported. I mean, I've spoken to people who have had, you know, severe myocarditis and various other ailments that, that the doctors won't write an adverse event report for. And other, you know, guys, you know, other people have been told by the TGA that it wasn't related to the vaccine.
So, you know, that, that in itself, the 99.999 should see the backer scare, um, if he's gonna keep running this strokes and, uh, uh, paralysis is in the side effect of the vaccine.
That's another reason why he is gone. Um, another reason why I think he should go is he told me, I, I called Greg Hunt the night, I think it was about the 1st of September or the 2nd of September, on that Friday afternoon when the TGA band Ivermectin, I organized a meeting, uh, through Greg Humt that weekend to talk to Scar on the Monday morning.
He said he banned it because he didn't think that it was being issued in safe doses. So I asked him, I I've asked, I asked him, I said, well, what's the, the dosage that you've got a problem with? And he had a problem with 12 milligrams a day for, yeah. So he thought, so apparently for the river ly or the river, the river one or the, that one, it's four milligrams a day or something, right?
Um, but unbeknownst to me, I, I got on the phone and I didn't know enough to know at that point about the actual dosages. So I got on the phone back to Tom De Brody. Tom sent me a paper by a bloke called Guzo Toxicology Report that showed that you could do 30, 60 and 90 over day one, day four and day seven or something like that.
And they could also tolerate up to a hundred milligrams in one hit, um, safely. Uh, and then I also got a document sent to me later that week that was prepared by Merck, the maker, rev Ivermectin sent to the TGA that said you could do 30, 60, 90 on day one, four and seven, and also do one dose of 120 milligrams. Um, and that was safe, right? Um, uh, since then, I've had people from the military contact me when they were on overseas assignments whereby they were given six three milligram tablets to take. Um, so i e 18 milligrams, I got, uh, had a warrant officer.
When I put that photo up of what was there, I was contacted the next day by a warrant, uh, officer who was a medical officer in the Army. He said, we used to hand out Ivermectin, you know, we'd never had any problems, um, whatsoever. Um, and then, then we've got the big, and this is the one that really frustrates me, and the one that really ticked me off, um, early on was Kylie wa uh, Wagstaff, uh, who was a, a professor at Monash University back in 2012, 2013, demonstrated in the laboratory that Ivermectin could inhibit the important protein that carries viruses through the endoplasmic re reticulum into the nucleus. Now, that's very, very important because you've got a cell, you've got a membrane, then you've got the cytoplasm, and then you've got the nucleus.
The nucleus is where all your DNA is stored and, and, and a retrovirus, which is what the coronavirus is, it comes back into the cell, goes through the cytoplasm, and it's carried, you know, you need certain proteins to carry it through their endoplasmic reticulum into the nucleus, right? If that, that protein, you know, if, if Ivermectin could inhibit the protein that does that, that transport like it's cargo, protein transports the virus into the nucleus where it then has to, can then replicate, it stops, its dead, right? So, you know, you, you get what you call epidem or, or statistics where you do trials and you look at people, and then you also look at things in the laboratory, right? Um, now they understand the pathway of the virus, and they understand that Ivermectin inhibits that.
Surely that in itself is worth investigating. Now, scar constantly says there's no evidence that Ivermectin works right? Now we've got obvious examples like Ura Pradesh, Indonesia, and Japan that I can list. Now, I I I, I don't like to quote them as proof because I dunno how the numbers work, and I'm not familiar with how well they calculate the data. I mean, you know, so that would seem suggestive that it works, but I think the big crunch one is what worked in the lab.
Now then the question becomes, oh, the doses in the lab are too high. I went back to Tom Ti and Robert Clancy with that. They say, no, it's not too high. You know, these guys work in this stuff all the time.
You know, these guys, Tom ti has 67 staff working for him. He is, um, earns his money from patents, patients and private donations. He's not a career bureaucrat like Scar is. And you know, one of the things that also annoys me about the Ivermectin argument is they say, oh, it's horse paste. You know, why would you use something that's used on horses? Well, scar is an agricultural scientist, right?
Who then did a pharmacology PhD later on. So if you're gonna mock, um, Ivermectin for being related to veterinary issue, you know, practices, then what about Scarat? I mean, it's, you know, they have it both ways there.
So, um, uh, that, that, that, so that bit really, really frustrates me that we've never looked at, you know? And, and it's as though, and, and the reason why it's also important, apart from the fact that it might work and that we know it's safe, um, is that it's cheap. You know, I mean, and, and so, and this is another argument I'm gonna use about that indemnity scheme.
We've dropped 8 billion alone on, on vaccines and, and booster shots. Um, and you know, the other red flag going off in my head, we bought 150 million booster shots for a country of 25 million people. Um, not, not kosher on that one. Um, I'm not sure if we paid for that 150 billion, I will qualify, qualify that, but the fact that we've even felt the need to get six booster shots on top of the two, um, and we haven't even rolled out Novavax yet, um, or Covax, you know, uh, uh, Nikolai TROs, um, one. So, uh, anyway, so, um, I guess I'll, I'll leave it at that. But anyway, next week's, the week, um, my good friend and colleague, uh, Alex Antic has, has jumped on board as well as One Nation. Um, Uh, so, um, I, I'm yet to have a discussion with the ministers in any meaningful way.
I mean, the Prime Minister indicated today that people shouldn't get, have to, uh, have facts, uh, you know, be mandate to mandate shouldn't exist. Um, I suspect that he did that to test the waters, um, and get feedback on that. Um, I, I, you know, look, take all this with a grain of salt. You know, the, the Couri mail poll that had about 4,000 people was two to one in favor of the Prime Minister. I would like to think that, um, the support is with us. Um, but we have to be cognizant of the fact that there's been 18 months of fear mongering by the premiers where they've stood up every day from nine o'clock to 12 o'clock, you know, nine o'clock Queensland, 10 o'clock New South Wales, 11 o'clock Andrews, and then 12 o'clock WA on occasions, or the ACT.
A lot of people have been, you know, are, are, are terrified of Covid. Um, look, we should treat it seriously, but there are a lot of people, and, and the scary thing for me about Queensland is, is that we're yet to actually have the, our covid moment, right?
We have not opened up, right? Like what we, we, it's coming and all we've done in the last 18 months is kicked the can down the road and cause a lot of heartache, destroy society, you know, destroy livelihoods. You know, luckily up here, our kids haven't lost too much schooling, but, you know, family, our loved ones have been kept apart. You know, we've divided our country on so many levels.
And, you know, let, let's be honest, I think we are not the same laid back country we were, you know, even a few years ago. Um, and, and at this stage, we, we are yet to face our, our moment of truth. So, um, I, I fear that if covid cases take off again, palasha, regardless of what level of vaccination we're actually's gonna lock down again, um, and that will just only delay the inevitable. So we, we are gonna have to, and, and I think personally think the sooner we open up throughout summer, um, you know, and not winter, uh, the better. Um, but anyway, look, so we've got that in front of us.
But look, that's enough from me. I am happy to take questions from the audience.
