On October 11th a Bill is to be presented to the Queensland Parliament which would impose draconian limits on what doctors can say to their patients. If passed, doctors will no longer be able to express their opinion or use their experience, training and education, if that opinion goes against what the Government health bureaucrats determine to be in the general interests of the public.
The National Law originally came into being after the Commonwealth, States and Territories all entered into an intergovernmental agreement in 2008. By that agreement it was established the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (the National Law) would first become legislation passed by the Queensland parliament (s.6.3), which the other States and Territories would then mirror and pass via each of their parliaments (s.6.4), The same intergovernmental agreement established the Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council (s.7.1) charged with overseeing the National Law.
Once passed into law by the Queensland parliament, all the other States and Territories are required to create virtually identical Bills and submit to their parliaments to be made law, thereby effecting the same amendments to the National Law of their State or Territory (s.13.4).
Australian doctors will be bound to follow Government policy regardless of countervailing evidence, which means that Government health bureaucrats will determine how doctors should approach treatment recommendations for their patients.
The Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 proposes changes which would give the Queensland Health Ombudsman, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and the Medical Board of Australia unprecedented powers to sanction doctors for expressing their professional opinion based on their assessment of the best available science.
This amendment to the Bill is clearly designed to destroy our healthcare system. A patient visits their doctor for an ‘opinion’, which will be obliterated by the act. Healthcare is nuanced, almost every day I ‘violate’ textbook recommendations because patients do not conform to idealised representations, each has unique features. Those deviations come down to experience, which is the patient’s and doctor’s most powerful asset.
Medicine will cease to evolve. It will become fossilised in the Covid Ice Age. Minor indiscretions like prescribing antibiotics when the indications are blurred could be subject to disciplinary action. Guidelines are contradictory so it would be almost impossible to practise medicine without contravening dictates. Most disease classification is already antiquated with diagnostic definitions set down sometimes 100 years ago or more. This legislation would lead to disastrous consequences for all Australians.
The aim of the Act must be to pave the way for multi-corporate management of healthcare. With 96% of the revenue of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which is responsible for approving all pharmaceutical products including vaccines, coming from the pharmaceutical industry, the potential for conflicts of interest is self-evident. Therapeutic interventions will become legislated in the interests of big pharma. mRNA vaccines could be delivered unopposed on ‘conscience’ grounds, including to children. The cargo in the mRNA vaccines can be changed at will without going through full regulatory approval. By the time our children turn five, they would be comprehensively ‘protected’ by the ‘Pharma Ring of Protection’, vaccinated against everything from diabetes to in-growing toenails, all without the constraints of clinical opinion.
In the absence of a functioning healthcare system, individuals will be encouraged by authorities to seek their healthcare online from approved ‘trusted sources’. Doctors will become demonised as pariahs, depicted as being left behind in the high tech era. We will doubtless be receiving a concoction of ‘junk food’ medicine upsold with pharma fries. For every thought, action and movement there will be a pharmaceutical solution, requirement even. Your mere existence will demand so, for the safety of others.
This obscene piece of legislation paves the way to an Orwellian nightmare, with consequences that go far beyond healthcare, to the very core of our humanity. It’s the desecration of our rights to autonomous existence, it’s the Monty Python boot trampling in the face of every individual Australian. Our children will be stamped, sealed and delivered from birth, with profit potential identified and catalogued.
For the Australian citizen this is our Stalingrad. Defeat here will open the field to unlimited human resources for oppressive forces that can never be turned back. We must oppose this with all our resolve.
‘Frank Mercy’ is a pseudonym for a doctor with a clinical practice who also holds an appointment at an Australian university.
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Bad news.
A Stalingrad? Dunno about Australia, bit with a few exceptions doctors here in the UK have shown bugger all spine in standing up to the covid crimes, especially the stabs.
And some of them might wake up to a loss of confidence in their prospective patients. Whether that works out well or not, who knows. E.g. it seems to me that fashions come and go with certain types of drug.
Some very senior infectious disease specialists in the UK were appalled by the government’s decision to recommend the Covid mRNA vaccinations to children, and refused to have their own children vaccinated. They were quite vocal about this in private, but despite being asked repeatedly by news media for interviews due to their expertise, reluctant to come out publicly with their views. Their view was that to do so would be a career-ender, and that outside the tent, they would be unable to do any good at all, while inside, they could at least try to fight it in their own way. They also alluded to potential threats to safety in speaking out, pointing to the backlash colleagues had experienced.
I can’t judge them without walking in their shoes, but it does seem like there might have been several things in play. One is an ‘ivory tower’ syndrome in academia and the health sector, where due to senior figures being the least affected by government policy in a practical sense (even benefitting from it), they had the least connection to its consequences for ordinary people, even if understood rationally.
Another is the dilution of responsibility within the group – some specialists were speaking out and taking the flak, so why bother putting yourself and the safety and security of your family on the line? Another is the sheer malevolence of the forces arranged against them – what was reported spoke of something very focussed and coordinated.
In this respect, failure to understand what they were up against could have been another factor. The feeling that authorities are inherently reasonable – that eventually the truth would out, and all that was required was presentation of the facts. They seemed to have no idea how compromised the government and civil service were; that they were dealing with a PR war, and that their best chance of influencing policy would have been to play the game on that level too.
There’s a chance (and I hope) that without the work of these people behind closed doors, things might have been far worse. We could have seen more direct pressure on parents to have their children injected with mRNA vaccines, rather than just a propaganda effort.
I really hope that if the evil forces currently casting a shadow over the world try this s**t again, these people will find the courage to come forward and speak up.
I hope the doctors who researched the vaccine (lack of) safety updates published on this site, for which I am very grateful, find the courage to step out from the shadows. Assuming they haven’t already.
Yes, things can often be a whole lot more nuanced than appear from the outside, and real-life situations and decisions are rarely black and white.
Yet – the stabbing of children with covid mRNA?? That is black and white. A straightforward divide between good and evil.
If you don’t speak out in support of children, when children are in danger, then when is the time?? What do you actually amount to if you duck that one? Well, as we know from the Saville example, it’s all too easy to keep quiet.
I honestly believe that a lot of doctors are just plain ignorant, and got all their stab info from the BBC. And maybe some are moral cowards who’d rather have their two-n-six than do what is right.
Whatever way you look at it – and I’m truly sorry to have to write this, and sorry to any doctors on here who have stood out – the profession as it exists right now is a disgrace.
GPs certainly overall are an absolute disgrace with a few indeed very few exceptions. They still insist on masking that must tell you something.
“On October 11th a Bill is to be presented to the Queensland Parliament which would impose draconian limits on what doctors can say to their patients…
For the Australian citizen this is our Stalingrad.”
A first rate article.
We can be absolutely certain that if the Australian thugs get away with this it will be us and the world next…
“it’s the Monty Python boot trampling in the face of every individual Australian. Our children will be stamped, sealed and delivered from birth, with profit potential identified and catalogued.”
There is no clearer statement of the intention to make slaves of those who survive the jabathon massacre.
I’m 100x more scared of this than any upper respiratory disease you can throw at me.
I’ve no doubt some of them are doing this – for the common good, because they actually believe in their own propaganda.
The rest do it simply because they know what’s going on and are scared what will happen to them if the cat gets out of the bag.
Let us hope the cat does not desert us in this our hour of greatest need.
You state – “For every thought, action and movement there will be a pharmaceutical solution, requirement even. Your mere existence will demand so, for the safety of others”.
Wonderfully put and it’s coming to us all soon if we let the bastards win.
Fascism: the collusion of government, state institutions and corporations to control and organise every aspect of human life through order and obedience.
This just completes the take over of the medical industry and profession by the state and the pharma industry, in collusion with one another.
To be fair, most doctors have already capitulated. Few of them think for themselves and just take every thing that they are told by their medical authorities, standards setting bodies like NICE and pharma companies at face value, without questioning anything.
That much was clear when they participated in the experimental jabbing of the world population. Also, with their sheep like adoption of face masks.
An eye doctor I recently quizzed about his insistence on the wearing of face masks in his office blurted out that they are very useful and that we should look at Asia where they’ve been worn for years even before covid.
Having lived in east Asia for much of my adult life, I can personally attest to that being complete and utter boll*cks. Which proved to me that that doctor, like most, just doesn’t think, doesn’t questions, simply repeats what he hears in what is supposed to be HIS OWN SPHERE OF EXPERTISE!
I would say that this law simply formalises what is already the case de facto. Doctors just do what they are told. For the most part they are dumb, unthinking drones.
The capitulation of doctors has been absolutely staggering. If ever an industry went from hero to zero it is this one. Frankly, I dont trust doctors and the jury is out where other members of the pharmaceutical, whoops, medical industry is concerned.
Not only is the domination of healthcare by the pharmaceutical industry and health bureaucrats an insult to physicians and other healthcare professionals, it’s also downright dangerous. To gamble with people’s health by prescribing standards according to the whims of some self-righteous panjandrums (who have no medical letters after their names), is literally a health hazard to the nation!
Are the GPs down-under going obsolete then? Will the approach to health care from now on be as infantile a one-size-fits-all solution to all ailments, ignoring all medical history, allergies, intolerances and wishes of patients?
It is the most illustrative twist of irony that GPs routinely make the point that we should never engage in hypochondriac health diagnosis on the internet and, as they rightly point out, trust instead in their PROFESSIONAL, HIGHLY INFORMED MEDICAL OPINION!
For how not to run a national health service, see Australia.
I understand it even says in the proposed Australian legislation that a doctor will be required to give the official health advice even if it is not in the best interest of the patient.
Why have doctors at all if all they do is give the advice provided by government. California currently proposing similar legislation.
I suspect it is so they can mandate future mRNA injections even though people will not want them.
We need more people to stand up and say no.
Regarding why Doctors did not stand up before, one reason is that the amount of money hospitals in the USA made from Covid is mindbogglingly large.
Hospital directors would hardly be saying to doctors to send people home with some early treatment tablets when they can make hundreds of thousands of dollars on one ICU covid patient.
Ref this substack which has a link to review paper with profits made and costs. https://www.covidlawcast.com/p/blood-money
If Dr G is reading could you give us your perspective on this please?
I’ve just read the article.
I have been aware of the planning of this legislation for some time though not of the progress of its implementation.
I am extremely concerned, though not surprised, as the aim of governments, state and Federal, over many years, has been to whittle away individual doctors’ freedom.
I do not see any widespread dissent within the profession- most are concerned with day to day life (family, mortgage, etc) and spend no time researching into government overreach,
let alone fighting against it.
It is telling that all governments in Australia are significantly left of centre (the 2 remaining “centre-right” governments push radical agendas such as Net Zero, mandatory masking/ “vaccines”, trans ideaology, etc) and control of free thinking is a core tenet of their dogma.
My eldest sister got cancer and died a few years ago. The funeral director, filling out the details, asked who was her doctor. “She didn’t have one” said my brother-in-law (who doesn’t, either). The Funeral Director was clearly shocked, although he managed not to say anything. I suspect he will have more examples to be shocked over in the future.
When you consider CA approved that Bill to punish doctors who spread false information (as defined by tptb), Oz looking to do similar with this Bill. Dr Malhotra (vaccinated but now remorseful and speaking out) in a video on the WCH pages in the UK confirmed he and his colleagues got their covid information from the media as put out by government
Who’d be a doctor 
The world has been here before. It was called the Inquisition. Let’s though look at a real case scenario.
In 1985 I wrote a letter to the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases suggesting, counter to official thinking, that rheumatoid arthritis should be treated early with combination chemotherapy. Had the Queensland Inquisition been prefigured in the UK then, I could have been struck off the medical register.
25 years later my suggestion had become standard doctrine. In theory I would have been able to claim damages for the loss of my career and patients denied what was in fact the right treatment would have been able to sue also.
Queensland is potentially setting itself up for a tsunami of financial claims. Perhaps it should think about the possible, even probable consequences. So should any medics attempting to censor scientific debate.
There are many other examples of established doctrine being overturned. Make the Queensland folk learn about Semmelweis for one.
“True medicine … does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided”
– Paracelsus
I suspect, if this goes through, the result will be a large minority who will no longer bother consulting the “medical” profession.
If I was 30 years younger, I would not be bringing a child into the world the evil b@stards are creating. But then, that’s probably what they want.
A large proportion of my patients, who are primarily “enlightened”, do not, as a rule, see doctors.
I tell them this is generally a wise decision.
The majority of ailments are caused by poor lifestyle choices and treatable with lifestyle modifications.
I agree with your last sentence – while the climate/Covid catastrophists refuse to have children, we enlightened ones need to procreate like crazy.
I completely agree with you.
I have elected not to see a doctor for a number of years.
I have Marfan Syndrome & found I was better without ANY drugs or intervention. I found all drugs had strong side affects, which upset my balance.
Good simple fresh diet, moderation in all things & pursuing a constructive creative lifestyle where external stresses are minimised…has worked for me.
This is truly a frightening state of affairs. You cannot control an infinitely variable such as health. (look at the result of the last two years) If this is allowed to proceed then by extension the doctors themselves can be removed from the system and replaced with a tick box process with pre-determined conclusions. A potential side effect of tick boxes would be an instant reflection of population health, where government intervention could be exerted, as of the last two years.
I already don’t trust the NHS and, by extension, any NHS employee who mindlessly pushes the government/trust line. I believe the route to health is to eat good food (fresh, not the processed products of ‘big food’), to get outside for fresh air, to take regular exercise outside (who needs a gym) and to keep ‘big pharma’ out of my body.
If this happens doctors might as well resign and insist the stupid politicians imposing this on them, do their job. Doctors have an obligation to treat their patients in the best way their years of training and experience enable them. If this is taken away from the profession it would be a great loss and I would hope the Australian doctors will not stand for it.
As has been stated many times, most people today go into governments for one reason, power. Competency, expertise and ethics are not a requirement. The covid debacle has shown that Doctors, public health officials and other medical people are some of the most authoritarian, tyrannical and unethical people living. It is only natural that these people would seek more power and of course, it’s all for the good of saving people. This new law in Australia is dangerous & completely unnecessary and is designed to achieve nothing with regards health-care. It is solely related to increasing the power of public health officials.