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Covid Dissident Doctor William Bay Exonerated as Suspension Overturned

by Rebekah Barnett
13 December 2024 11:29 AM

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 right back to be a doctor 👨‍⚕️ and more importantly the right for all doctors to speak freely about #vaccines 😊.

Truly, God has given me everything 🤲 Praise Jesus and thank you to my wonderful supporters without whom none of this would have possible. Freedom!!… pic.twitter.com/3KEUHMGnpY

— The Victorious Dr William Bay🥼 (@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.

This article was originally published on Dystopian Down Under, Rebekah Barnett’s Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here.

Tags: AustraliaCourtCOVID-19DoctorsJudgesMedical ProfessionVaccine

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
5 months ago

Meanwhile the Covid enquiry in the UK continues to take its time.

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
5 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

The Covid enquiry in the UK is, by-and-large pure theatre. The conclusions of the enquiry had been decided before the enquiry even started.

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Curio
Curio
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor
  • And a very expensive one: The cost of the Covid Inquiry is projected to be over £196 million. The cost per day is estimated to be £136,907.
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VAX FREE IanC
VAX FREE IanC
5 months ago
Reply to  Curio

Happy lawyers… once again!

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
5 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

As Domonic Cummings said….Many of the meetings are a foregone conclusion.

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VAX FREE IanC
VAX FREE IanC
5 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

The CONVID enquiry in the UK remains a complete charade plain to see for anyone able to bring themselves to look.

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klf
klf
5 months ago

A hero.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
5 months ago

Each little victory opens the Overton window a crack. Good on yer, mate.

Last edited 5 months ago by Jon Garvey
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Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago

Thanks to Rebekah Barnett and the DS editors for this wonderful news from Australia, which we might never have heard through the mainstream media.

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Climan
Climan
5 months ago

Aseem Malhotra is still in the firing line:

https://www.gmc-uk.org/news/news-archive/statement-on-judicial-review-of-our-handling-of-complaints-about-dr-aseem-malhotra

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MadWolf303
MadWolf303
5 months ago

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.

Just wait until RFK Jr and Rand Paul start their enquiries and it won’t only be Covid…..Trump has authorised RFK Jr to look at vaccines and Autism….Big Pharma is in a world of trouble…as are all it’s enablers….

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
5 months ago
Reply to  MadWolf303

And the death of his uncle, and maybe it will get people more interested in our own state secrets that often are classified till 2045 to name a few.

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MadWolf303
MadWolf303
5 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Both his Uncle and his Father……Trump was persuaded not to open the Files….as they were too shocking……also Martin Luther Kings…..

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VAX FREE IanC
VAX FREE IanC
5 months ago
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There are a whole stack of ‘skeletons’ to be found. The reality will be terrifying. See attached and try googling any of the entries on it! Coincidences?

The Clinton deaths by association
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VAX FREE IanC
VAX FREE IanC
5 months ago
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Hear hear!

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
5 months ago

Australia was one place I did not expect this to happen.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
5 months ago

I think a lot of people who work in healthcare are feeling genuine remorse now. They were sincerely ignorant at the time and now can’t deny what is happening in terms of admissions for cancer. People showing up with no previous medical history, no risk factors, and finding out that they have advanced lung cancer. It is a terrible death even if it only lasts three months. Not just the lungs the whole body wastes away bones become so thin and then the final unspeakable agonies. To my mind this is the greatest evil in the history of humankind.

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Loftier
Loftier
5 months ago

The BBC ran an article lamenting the fact that Stephen Bartlett allowed experts like Dr. Bay to voice their educated opinion or as the BBC put it “spread misinformation” on his popular podcast.

This is why BBC Verify is seen as a joke. When even courts find that medics have every right to question vaccines, lockdowns or any other pharmaceutical or NP intervention and indeed should be encouraged to do so it lays bare what Verify is – a dangerous tool of censorship and one-narrative control.

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