A Queensland doctor has won back his right to practise medicine after the Supreme Court overturned his suspension for political statements and activities during the Covid pandemic.
Dr. William Bay was suspended by the medical regulators, AHPRA and the Medical Board, on August 17th 2022, after publicly questioning Covid vaccine safety, often with bombastic, live-streamed theatrics.
However, in a decision on Friday, Justice Thomas Bradley ruled that Dr. Bay’s suspension was to be set aside, as AHPRA and the Board had acted with bias and did not afford Dr. Bay procedural fairness.
“It might be difficult to characterise the conduct of the Board and AHPRA as anything less than profoundly unsatisfactory,” said Justice Bradley in a blistering repudiation.
Justice Bradly criticised the regulators’ “animus” and “combative approach” towards Dr. Bay, along with their failure to demonstrate that Dr. Bay had contravened any relevant legislation or guidelines. AHPRA and the Board have been ordered to pay costs.
Dr. Bay, a GP registrar and devout Christian, made waves during the Covid pandemic for his dramatic stunts raising awareness of Covid vaccine harms, at a time when medical professionals were under strong pressure not to be seen to undermine the Covid vaccine rollout.
In 2022, Dr. Bay established the Queensland People’s Protest, a pro-freedom group dedicated to raising awareness about medical censorship, informed consent and freedom of speech.
In a ‘peak stunt,’ Dr. Bay interrupted the National Conference of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) with a live-streamed tirade. During the confrontation, Dr. Bay accused Chief Medical Officer at the time Paul Kelly of lying and of gaslighting doctors, and called on the medical professionals present to, “join with the people of Australia and stop forcing these vaccines on people who are being killed by them”.
Present at the AMA conference was the Board’s Chair, Professor Anne Tonkin, who discussed with AMA Chair, Associate Professor Julian Rait, making a complaint to the Board about Dr. Bay’s conduct.
Associate Professor Rait’s complaint was the fifth notification made to the regulators, all regarding Dr. Bay’s public conduct and statements about Covid vaccines and public health policies. Notably, no complaints were raised about Dr. Bay’s medical practice.
Shortly after, Professor Tonkin chaired the meeting at which the decision to suspend Dr. Bay’s registration was made, but Dr. Bay was not informed of any discussion between Professor Tonkin and Associate Professor Rait about his conduct at the conference, nor about the making of a complaint.
Thus, “a fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend that [the Board] might not bring an impartial mind to the resolution of the question” of whether to suspend Dr. Bay’s registration, said Justice Bradley.
AHPRA and the Board argued that the pandemic emergency required that they act hastily in suspending Dr. Bay lest he continue to encourage “mistrust of vaccinations (in relation to COVID-19), of public health measures, of the health system generally, and of the regulation of the health care system”.
But Justice Bradley took a torch to this line of reasoning, stating that:
None of these [pandemic] measures authorised the Board to abrogate the right of persons, such as Dr. Bay, to a hearing before an apparently unbiased tribunal. None authorised the Board to deny him procedural fairness. None extended the Board’s regulatory role to include protection of government and regulatory agencies from political criticism.
I interviewed Dr. Bay last year, while he was still slogging it out in the courts with AHPRA and the Board. To be sure, he is colourful, eccentric and highly vocal about his views on Covid vaccines. Some find his approach offensive.
Dr. Bay owned it. He told me:
I do not deny that my approach was unusual, but that is the whole point. I signed all the declarations, but nothing was happening, and the tyranny was just getting worse and worse. You know, one shot, two shot, three shot, four. So as the conservative approach has not worked, I thought a bit of flair and colour was worth a try to wake the Australian people up to the horrors that we were experiencing.
On Friday, Dr. Bay took to his signature format – live-streaming from outside the Supreme Court with a group of supporters – to announce his win.
“I have won the right back to be a doctor and more importantly the right for all doctors to speak freely about vaccines,” he wrote on X.
“Truly, God has given me everything. Praise Jesus and thank you to my wonderful supporters without whom none of this would have [been] possible. Freedom!!”
I have won
— The Victorious Dr William Baythe right back to be a doctor
and more importantly the right for all doctors to speak freely about #vaccines
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Truly, God has given me everythingPraise Jesus and thank you to my wonderful supporters without whom none of this would have possible. Freedom!!… pic.twitter.com/3KEUHMGnpY
(@DrBillyBay) December 13, 2024
Dr. Bay’s win will provide a ray of hope to medical professionals still languishing on the bench under suspensions for things they said on social media, for prescribing off-label or for giving vaccine exemptions.
Dr. Mark Hobart, who has been suspended since November 2021 for issuing vaccine exemptions, but is yet to be found guilty of any misconduct, wrote on X:
The house of cards is now falling down. Doctors can now tell the truth. This will be unstoppable. This will spread throughout the world and create a revolution. A revolution of truth.
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What they are now saying is that granny’s the disease vector? At least the kids get a day off from being the bad guys.
So getting this straight, the experimental gene therapy turns you into a potential killer. How’re those vaxx passports working out under this scenario Mr Gove?
They really need to just jog on (that’s the polite version).
Very good point. Granny will be required to have the vaccine so that she can get a Vax Passport to go to the Bingo.
If she scoops the big £25.00 prize she can’t take home a KFC Bonus Bucket to share with the grandchildren and hugs all around in case she gives them the Covid ?
Who the hell do they think they are?
They think they are our masters.
And so many Britons are happy for them to be our masters.
Just what I asked my pathetic Montgomeryshire MP last week plus “how dare you, this is not what we employ you for”.
Funny, I haven’t had a reply yet!
So now it isn’t the grandkids killing granny.
It’s vaxxed gran infecting her grandkids – who don’t get covid anyway.
Get jabbed and we’ll “allow” you to go out.
Ah, now you’ve been jabbed we’re urging you to stay home.
I’m beginning to think the podium gang need some serious psychiatric help to get them out of their doom spiral, I wouldn’t be opposed to a padded cell scenario…
… along with some experimental medicines, perhaps?
Full frontal lobotomies and electroshock therapy with a truck battery sound about right.
… with spikes instead of pads?
Just ignore the idiots. We visited, hugged and stayed 2 nights with our grandchildren last week and the month before that.
We’re both 64 and miraculously still alive. I would say our immune systems have done that but, according to sociologist Hancock, there’s no such thing as immunity. Must be because we were a mask in Lidls….oh, and ignore the BBC.
Zero covid all the way then!!! Unless folks have had enough and just get on with their lives as best they can.
Absolutely despicable. Yesterday, in the park, I congratulated a multi-generational family arriving in separate vehicles for their hugging. It made me smile and I know it certainly made them happy to hug. The older man’s viewpoint was all the adults had been vaccinated and the death rate from anything at all was at a very low value. I urged them to keep it up (the hugging that is) but I’m under no illusion that they needing my suggestion! I think everybody is soon going to be telling the doomsters to Foxtrot Oscar. We have had enough.
Just checked the figures at https://twitter.com/rp131/status/1377283083490238471?s=21. Current rate of infection for over 70s 1:50,000. Assuming that most of these people will be symptomatic and only the 10% asymptomatics would consider hugging anybody that’s 1:500,000. Chance of infecting someone by hugging them is 10% at the most. So chance of vaccinated over 70 year old infecting someone by hugging them 1:5,000,000. Probably a bit risky.
Apart from your overestimate of asymptomatic infection, and the value of the minor risk reduction by vaccination :-), your calculations compute as indicative of reality.
As a granny and a grandpa we have continued to hug throughout and are still alive. We won’t be told what to do or how to behave by a bunch of fools. We have managed quite well without the help of government.
QED.
Yep
At the beginning of this crap I asked my elderly neighbour who is 84 if he still wanted me and Mr Gum to come round, or if he felt happier being alone and ‘safe’?
He went with the former and frankly I can’t imagine having left him to be alone for a year! We have hugged throughout and guess what we’re all ok!
Great stuff. You could teach my mother a thing or two. She hasn’t hugged me or her grand-daughter for over a year and won’t until ‘Boris says we can’ (her words). FFS!
That’s really sad. Some just can’t not obey a rule. Sort of Stockholm syndrome.
Propaganda/psyops straight out of the Behavioural Psychologists playbook, and who checks the behaviour of those bar stewards?.
When you learn that most of the “SAGE” office consists mainly of behavioural psychologists, “Nudging” the public into “new” and permanent behaviours you realise how evil this all is. And they’re all just contolled, useful idiots doing their master’s bidding.
It’s beyond mental illness with these fanatics now. They’re diseased in the soul, morally deformed. They obviously view all human life as disgusting and insanitary. I’d be happy enough to leave them in their joyless, soulless hell, but they insist on locking us all in the room with them. I hate them.
Too right. And their great triumph is to convince the zombies that everybody else is disgusting and insanitary.You got to admit it: as a psy-op the idea is brilliant, because even zombies would resist thinking of themselves as disgusting and insanitary.
I know that everybody on this site, and our Reddit home, is a huggable human being, though hugs are voluntary! But huggazombie would be beyond me, I think.
They are indeed the evil ones because they knowingly and willingly obey the psychopaths at the top. The psychopaths are deluded and broken but their enablers give them power because they’ve been promised big rewards on the way. Oh, it’s very dark…
#SAGE is the new STUPID
Far too generous an assessment.
Of course it has, everything this globalist government have ruled this past year has inhibited our immune system!!
I concluded many months ago that the government were doing everything they could to stop people getting naturally immune and the population from reaching herd immunity.
This was especially so when they tried, but mercifully failed, to stop students from mingling at the beginning of the academic year.
Just follow the money.
Pretty nasty and evil, so something people have done since they evolved is now, because of a low mortality virus, being made out to be a killer. Those advocating this really need to be locked away on a island where they cannot mingle with the real humans
I’ll answer this insane idea in kind with a 3-word response
1st word: sounds like “duck”
2nd word: opposite of “left”
3rd word: opposite of “on”.
Actually that’s probably a bit too challenging for the evil idiots who come up with ideas like this to grasp.
It is not illogical. The inoculated with the pathogen are likely to become the infection spreaders. The elderly were specifically targeted by the inoculation campaign. Ergo, they are the spreaders now.
Have these advisers realised how stupid they sound. We are being told that the vaccine is working. How is it working? Am I missing something?
You are, of course, absolutely right.
But how many fellow citizens will recognize the shit in their feeding bowl as shit?
Precisely!
If it was a vaccine it would stop people catching it or spreading it.
Since it does neither it is NOT a vaccine which they are now admitting
Well, having just returned home after mixing households indoors, ignoring the rule of six (let alone 2) and hugging my grandchildren (and the rest of the family), my only response is :
“F. off you incredibly, brainless, maniacal sociopaths. Go isolate your pathetic selves until you are cured and fit to mix in decent society instead of contaminating it. You’ve got everything wrong up until now – are you going for the Japan Olympics in the Stupidity Class?”
…. or something like that …..
well said
Perhaps its time for the editors of this site to reflect on doing anything but support the enforced vaccination policy. They do not work, they do not confer immunity, they do not confer protection against transmission.
Like masks they are an outward sign of conformity to a totalitarian regime.
A respiratory illness given a name covid19, which may develop from a coronavirus, given a name SARS2 ( but is really just SARS) has an IFR of 0.15% and falling.
Health services are seasonally under pressure as they are each and every year, especially since economic decisions made to close wards, units a reduce beds.
Time for heads above the parapet, stop the injections.
Does Covid stand for Certificate of Vaccination ID and are we following the Lockstep plan the blueprint for Covid 2020?
Yes to both. Time to revolt.
I read this as a nudge unit move to vaccinate children. “Granny can infect you, ask mummy and daddy to get you jabbed”. Pretty horrendous, but there we are.
But on the other hand, the loons are screaming we must vaccinate the kids to stop them spreading it and killing Granny, even though they aren’t at risk.
So either the vaccine stops spread, or it doesn’t. It’s pretty obvious to me it’s the latter and so vaccination with a trial drug, should only be administered to those clinically vulnerable.
I have hugged, both family and friends and in public. I will continue to do so for those who wish to and are willing. I think a better campaign for everyone might be a resurrection of the 1980’s U.S. anti-drug slogan, but now aim it at our idiotic Government, ‘Just say No!’.
-Klaus Schwab
“The Government fears that people who have received the vaccine believe they are safe from Covid.”
Should the Government also be afraid that people who have received the MMR vaccine or indeed any other vaccine believe they are safe from MMR etcetera?
This is ridiculous. Are they deliberately pushing opposing messages? In a Tower Hamlets vaccine propoganda video, I noted these quotes:
“This is about protecting your loved ones and making a safe Tower Hamlets for us all.” Dr Somen Banerjee.
“The sooner you take the vaccine you are protected, others are protected, you’re helping your NHS, you’re helping your country. I don’t think really there is a choice (of vaccine), just take the vaccine.” Dr Anwar Ali. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skmISAYuXbE&list=WL&index=23
So you must take the vaccine to protect others, but once you’ve taken this vaccine that protects others, you still need to stay away from others in order to protect them.
When will they stop?
As with all their childish social control adverts, they can go swivel.
Love Moran’s cartoons.
This unvaccinated granny will be welcoming her baby granddaughters next week for an overnight stay and cuddles galore, so ner!