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Australian Politician Smears Those Opposed to Vaccine Mandates as “Anti-vaxxers”

by Luke Perry
23 November 2021 12:33 PM

In a recent press conference, Michael Gunner (pictured), the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory in Australia has said that those who oppose mandatory vaccination mandates are “anti-vaxxers”. According to Gunner, “your personal vaccination status is utterly irrelevant”, meaning that even those who are fully vaccinated but disagree with the policy politically deserving of the label, with the Minister also proclaiming that “enforcement, rather than encouragement” should be the main method deployed to drive up vaccination rates. RT has the story.

People who oppose Covid vaccine mandates are “anti-vaxxers,” pure and simple, Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner said during a heated press conference, noting more positive cases in his state were “expected”.

Gunner made it more than clear during a press conference in which he was asked if his hardline stance on vaccine mandates might have turned some away from getting the jab that anyone who wasn’t 100% for the state’s increasingly draconian vaccination mandates was a true “anti-vaxxer“. Even if they themselves had been vaccinated, he argued, Australians were either with the virus or with the mandates.

“If you give a green light, give comfort to, support anybody who argues against the vaccine, you are an anti-vaxxer. Your personal vaccination status is utterly irrelevant,” Gunner declared.

The term ‘anti-vaxxer’, previously used to denote a parent who opposed vaccination for their children, has seen its meaning expanded during the Covid pandemic to include anyone who opposes vaccination for themselves, and now, in the eyes of ardent vaccine supporters, anyone who opposes a mandate, whether or not they themselves have taken the shot.

“If you’re out there in any way, shape or form campaigning against the mandate, then you are absolutely anti-vax,” he continued, insisting the state’s vaccination mandate was “absolutely critical” to saving lives. “I will never back away from supporting vaccines, and anyone out there who comes for the mandate, you are anti-vax,” Gunner snarled.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Watch an interview with Alexander Tschugguel, one of the leaders of the anti-mandate movement in Austria, on the Sun’s YouTube channel.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

Confirms what we knew already. The Civil Service runs the country how it sees fit, and the Government is just window dressing.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I’m sure the Civil Service tries to run it as it see fit, or some of them at least, but we’ve had TWELVE years of Conservative governments. What have those governments done to push back?

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I fear you’re hoping rather too much that a Minister and their team can cut though the work of thousands of CS determined to stymie progress. As we have seen with the Home Office and Rwanda, if by good fortune, something does get done, the Unions are there to pick up the tab for the court cases to stop it happening. Its the deep state at work…

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I’m not hoping for anything, or expecting anything – just pointing out that voting Conservative doesn’t appear to have conservative results, IMO because the senior leadership of the Tory party and a substantial number of MPs are metropolitan left wing big state “liberals” who are out of touch with or despise their core supporters.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Yeah, I’d agree with that. Add in the influence of supranational forces like the WEF and UN and Agenda 2030, and thats pretty much it

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Indeed
There’s a general trend “leftward” it seems to me, but it is being hugely accelerated by the kind of organisations you mention and many sheeple are only going to notice when it’s too late

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oblong
oblong
2 years ago

So it appears that Children and their welfare should be a priority of any government.
ive not seen much of that over last two years.
throw childrens future health on the scrap heap for the sake of liberal ideology. We are at the mercy of the f ING dogooders

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NickR
NickR
2 years ago

There is a fine line between FGM and gender reassignment surgery.

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debra
debra
2 years ago
Reply to  NickR

No line.. just the same brutal attack on an innocent. 😒

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

All this does is confirm what we already know: the Civil Service is institutionally left-wing, suffers from group-think, works to block Minister’s policies it doesn’t support and therefore needs a complete clear out.

The problem we have is that the CONs won’t do it.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

We have another problem. What do we do with the brainwashed tens of thousands when we’ve got rid of them.? Inflict them on private companies..? Or will they just find gainful employment from the public purse, buggering up something else. This may take two generations to fix, if we can fix it at all.

Remind me. Communism in the Soviet Union lasted how long, and there’s still a sizeable rump who look at the time with romantic eyes and a sense of nostalgia.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

There are already plenty of senior and middle managers in the private sector who are pursuing the woke agenda with equal vigour.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

That is for their employers to accept or otherwise. Consumers have the choice to use or not their products and services. And there is mounting evidence of “Go woke, go broke”
However, we have no choice in our dealings with slither serpents.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

As always, those who benefit most from the exercise of power want it to continue. Quelle surprise.

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debra
debra
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

They could become our WEF quota of “useless eaters” They could then be shipped off into the glorious future designed for such a class of humanity and save us the rest of us a lot of heartache.

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thelightcavalry
thelightcavalry
2 years ago

Boris and Carrie Johnson should hang their heads in shame.

Nikki da Costa, Johnson’s former director of legislative affairs, told The Times that a group of aides who supported the controversial LGBT rights group were giving the PM ‘skewed’ advice that she believed was undermining women’s rights.

Da Costa who stood down in August said: ”There is no other organisation — no business, or charity, no matter how big — that can pick up the phone to a special adviser sitting outside Boris Johnson’s office and get that person to speak directly to the prime minister.

‘But that is the kind of access that Stonewall has’.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10197907/Boris-Johnsons-advisors-letting-Stonewall-dictate-government-trans-policy-ex-aide-warns.html

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RJBassett
RJBassett
2 years ago

“Yes Minister” portrayed what we all suspected was the case in government in the 1970’s and 1980’s that the government was run for the benefit of the civil servants. The show was good for some rueful laughs but the case of Keira Bell demonstrates it’s not funny anymore..

On trans issues, critical race theory, net zero, trade policy, inflation, government spending, the operations of the NHS and education blobs, it is clear that the civil service has now become the enemy of the people.

Last edited 2 years ago by RJBassett
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Gefion
Gefion
2 years ago

Kemi said she couldn’t have done it without the backing, support etc of Liz Truss, Matt Hancock, Sahid Javid etc. Very diplomatic with an eye to the future…

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago

Sir Humphrey rules!!!

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago

Here lies the fundamental problem with the British Civil Service: it’s an entrenched organisation where failure is rewarded with a move to a different department and is easily infiltrated by the far left through the fast stream system.
It’s ludicrous that an incoming government is appointed Civil Service secretaries and the like by the Civil Service itself. Why shouldn’t an incoming government appoint its own people? An outgoing Labour government’s Civil Service should be cleared out and replaced by a Tory one when the Tories get into power. The Government should appoint its own heads of department and hire its own people to run each streamlined division. That way, a government’s agenda can be pursued and that government is responsible for the success or failure of its manifesto.
The British Civil Service is plainly inefficient and corrupt. Prior to March 2020, a friend who worked in the Home Office told me that on an average day at least one third of staff is always absent due to leave, ‘sickness’ and ‘duvet days’ and more are offline while ‘working from home’.
Plainly, the Civil Service needs reform: how many taxes exist that purely fund the department that oversees that particular tax, for example?
The far left, postmodern, groupthink is deeply worrying. Postmodernism denies objective reality: if the people running the Civil Service are living in a subjective, imagined world and pretending that that world exists, no wonder we’ve had things like lockdowns and climate mania when the empirical evidence denies their world view. No wonder Civil Servants allowed the butchery of children to take place in the Tavistock Clinic when they won’t say what a woman is anymore.
There are two sexes: male and female. There are three genders – masculine, feminine and neuter (he, she and it) – in language. Everything else is the deranged, reality-denying rantings of delusional, far left academics.

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Smudger
Smudger
2 years ago

The views espoused by those climbing the career Tory party ladder have no bearing whatsoever on the views and actions taken when high office is achieved. Boris Johnson is perfect example of the latest person to play to the centre Right party faithful and head off in the opposite direction when party leader

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