Stephen Andrew statement on “How safe are face masks?”
I have just learnt that most of the face masks, PCR Test swabs and hospital respirators, have black graphene nanoparticles embedded in them.
Health Canada, Canada’s federal health agency, apparently sent out an urgent ‘recall notice’ in March, warning Canadians to “stop purchasing and using face masks containing nanoform graphene” – a novel nanoparticle.
The agency advised it had carried out a “preliminary assessment of available research” and found that “inhaled graphene particles had potential to cause early lung toxicity in animals,”, so could pose a “health risk” to humans.
French authorities issued their own urgent statement in June, ‘recalling’ all “face masks made using graphene or biomass graphene”.
Both countries directed “distributors, importers, and manufacturers to stop the sale of affected products immediately.”
Interestingly some Spanish scientists last month, analysed a batch of vaccines, and reported they were chockfull of “graphene oxide”. (see links below)
Graphene is apparently highly conductive and used in manufacturing paper-thin batteries, flexible smartphones, and microprocessors that operate at speeds once thought impossible.
It is a far from benign material if inhaled, however.
According to one researcher, breathing it in in large quantities can “create inflammation in the lungs, resulting in chronic injury, bacterial infections and the formation of calcified granulomatous”.
“It can also create a variety of immunodeficiency reactions and conditions like Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis”.
The Graphene Council (who even knew there was one) quickly issued a rebuttal, reassuring everyone that the billion dollar nanomaterial was definitely “safe and beneficial”.
As proof, it said that “Graphene materials” have been approved for sale in both Australia and Canada”.
Really?
News to me, but a quick check online revealed the Council was 100% correct!
All of which begs a number of questions:
1. What safety studies/research did the TGA rely on when it approved its widespread use in face masks, PCR test swabs and hospital respirators?
2. Where is the ‘informed consent’ given millions of users, like me, are unaware of the hidden ‘medical treatment’ their masks contain? and
3. Will the government accept ‘liability’ if it turns out graphene IS IN FACT dangerous for people’s cells/lungs?
Health Canada, meanwhile, was forced to lift their ‘recall’ notice.
It was a fairly terse statement, however, and finished defiantly with:
“At this time, no additional graphene masks are permitted for sale in Canada.”
“The department requires companies that wish to sell graphene masks in the country to FIRST PROVIDE EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATING THE SAFETY” and that “while graphene is reported to have antiviral and antibacterial properties, the department DID NOT FIND EVIDENCE that it provides any added antimicrobial or antiviral protection in these masks”.
Maybe it’s time we all started making our own masks …
Stephen Andrew statement on new Biosecurity Bill
Many people have been calling and emailing me the last few days, extremely alarmed over a new Bill introduced into Federal Parliament on 1 September 2021. The Biosecurity Amendment (Enhanced Risk Management) Bill 2021, grants the federal government significant new emergency powers, with one such power ringing alarm bells across the country.
The provisions causing the most angst are those expanding the State’s power under the Act, to impose draconian ‘biosecurity control orders’ over people. Currently, this power is limited to “individuals”. The new Bill expands this power to include whole groups or “class of individuals” as well. Under the current Act, the power to impose Biosecurity Control Orders give the government almost unlimited powers to restrict people’s movement, mandate medical tests, examinations and the taking of “samples”, as well as “medical treatments” such as vaccination.
While the notion of ‘consent’ is retained under the Act, failure to comply means individuals, and now groups, can be “detained” for as long as “necessary”. They can also be charged with offences punishable by up to 15 years in prison, under the new Bill. These are draconian and coercive powers, and Australians are right to be concerned at any expansion of them.
However, after reading through the Bill carefully, I am pretty sure the new powers DON’T apply to ‘groups’ or ‘classes of individuals’ WITHIN the general population.
Under Clause 4 of the Bill, Section 3 of the Act is amended as follows:
“Methods of managing risk to human health include imposing a human biosecurity control order on an individual, AND MAKING A HUMAN BIOSECURITY GROUP DIRECTION FOR A CLASS OF INDIVIDUALS, WHO HAVE, OR HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO, A LISTED HUMAN DISEASE”.
The critical issue here is what is the Bill’s definition of “class of individuals”.
According to the Bill a “human biosecurity group direction means a direction made under section 108B”.
Clause 108B reads:
(2) “Class of individuals must be all the individuals, or a group of individuals, who:
(a) Are on board an aircraft or a vessel that is in Australian territory; or
(b) The officer is satisfied are at a landing place or port in Australian territory, or at a place that is in close proximity to a landing place or port in Australian territory, where an aircraft or vessel has arrived at the landing place or port”.
The newly created powers therefore ONLY APPLY to those ‘groups’ and ‘classes’ of people travelling to and from Australia, either by plane or ship.
That doesn’t mean I agree with the Bill, or that the worrying glimpse the Bill offers into the mindset of our leaders doesn’t concern me – I don’t and it does.
However, it isn’t the guaranteed trip to an internment camp that some people are worried about either. 
NB: I may have missed something so let me know in the comments if you disagree.
Stephen Andrew statement on South Sea Islander recognition
Today marks 21 years since the QLD Parliament came to create the ASSI ( Australian South Sea Islanders) Recognition Statement. It’s been a long hard road for the Australian South Sea Island Community since being Blackbirded here to QLD 157 Years ago. This Statement of recognition through bipartisan consideration hangs on floor 5 at the parliament annexe but has never been taken to fruition as far as its delivery is concerned.
It becomes very confronting when you realise that earlier this Year a 94 Year Old WWII ASSI Veteran died on a dirt floor in Ayr, in a house that dates back to the late 1800’s. He and his family were described as the most honest and had the best work ethic that could be found, also that when this gentleman ever had a beer he would pour one onto the ground for his fallen brothers. (Courtesy The Parker Family Ayr)
It was this year the ABS asked for more information around the numbers concerning ASSI in their census documents, the facts yet to be correlated. In fact, the ASSI have been administratively ethnicised from all levels of Government documents and policy even though the recognition statement exists – sad and incomprehensible given they delivered the sugar and other industries to QLD through their blood sweat and tears.
Stephen Andrew statement on sale of DNA and health data
All of Queenslanders’ highly sensitive Police and Health data, going back 18 years, was recently ‘sold off’ to a mysterious private company called BDNA Group Pty Ltd, by the Qld Government. The database, known as the ‘Forensic Case Management System’, was created by the Queensland Police (QPS) in 2003. It contains hundreds of thousands of DNA samples, fingerprints and images painstakingly collected and stored across two decades of Police investigations in Queensland. The system also integrates data from QPrime, the National Automated Fingerprint Identification system as well as Australia’s ‘Kinship and Familial Data’ register, comprising DNA samples from “consenting biological relatives” of murder victims, missing persons and others.
The database also includes the health, forensic, chemical and biological specimen data collected by Queensland Health’s Forensic and Scientific Services Division, going back years!
Clearly such a treasure-trove of priceless personal data proved too tempting for our cash-strapped Government, and they ‘sold it off’ to the private sector on 16 July 2021. It was sold to a highly mysterious private “Brisbane-based” company, which seems to have just appeared out of nowhere in 2019. Its two founders, Martin Wauchope and Ryan Sheppard have little online presence but interestingly, their company bears the same name as a highly successful US Silicon Valley Tech company, BDNA Pty Ltd.
The BDNA Pty Ltd in California, which was described as an information database management company, was taken over by the US Tech Giant, FLEXERA, in 2017. Flexera boasts strategic partnerships with some of the biggest global tech and defence companies in the world, including Amazon, DXC Technology (also based in Brisbane), NTT Data, Apptio, Microsoft, and Google – to name a few.
I found the other link to Flexera on an online bio for ‘Marty Wauchope’, one of BDNA’s two founders. The Bio states that Marty is “a Partner at BDNA based in Brisbane, Queensland”. “Previously”, the Bio goes on, “Marty was a Partner at FLEXERA and also held positions in the Queensland Government.” That was as far as I got but I am sure there is a lot more to dig up for those who have the time.
The QCCL was awake to what was going on, and released a statement (which no media outlet picked up) saying the privatisation of Queensland citizens’ “personal, sensitive and health information” was “gravely concerning”. The VP of QCCL, Angus Murray, said the sale must be ‘deeply scrutinised’ for its “impact upon individual liberties” and asked the Qld Government to provide more “transparency around its future use”, and ensure Queenslanders’ “personal information is properly protected”.
Cue the sound of ‘crickets chirping’, while he waits.
Stephen Andrew statement on State of Emergency powers
Well as most of you probably already know, the Public Health Extension of Emergency Powers Bill was passed by the Queensland Parliament today. With the passing of the Bill, the Chief Health Officer’s extraordinary state of emergency powers under the Public Health Act, have been extended another 8 months to 30 April 2022. These are the powers that are being used to close businesses, churches, theatres and restaurants – issue mask mandates, border closures, mandatory QR sign-in, travel bans, strict social distancing rules and other measures.
Under the original Act, these powers were strictly time-limited and set to expire after only 14 days. By 30 April 2022, they will have been in place for more than 2 years, with no guarantee they won’t be extended again after that.
In fact, judging by some of the statements made today by the Health Minister, I would say the chances of another extension past 30 April 2022 are pretty high. The continuation of these laws is such a radical departure from our liberal and democratic traditions that I feel strongly that an urgent Inquiry or Review needs to be carried out, particularly in relation to all the legal, constitutional and human rights implications which have never been properly addressed.
Amendments to the Bill, which were supported by the LNP and all the Crossbench members, including myself, were tossed out and the Bill passed with the support of the LNP, although no actual vote was counted.
Knowing that many businesses and industries will close and Queensland’s mental health crisis worsen, with the passing of this Bill, is gut-wrenching. Members were all only given a few short minutes to say anything because the Government made drastic cuts to the time available for debate on the Bill.
I am posting a link to the comments I made on the Bill today during the short debate – see below for link.
It is a sad day, however – especially for all the small businesses and their workers who will suffer income and job losses as a result of this long extension of the Government’s power to force shutdowns at the drop of a hat – While allowing large wealthy retailers and sporting arenas to stay open as normal.
My thoughts are with all of them tonight.
TRANSFORMING AUSTRALIA INTO THE SURVEILLANCE CAPITAL
OF THE WORLD – ONE ORWELLIAN LAW AT A TIME
The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 (Identify and Disrupt Bill) passed both houses of federal parliament last week, with nary a peep from anyone. The new legislation grants extraordinary new powers for disrupting the online activities of its citizens, to the Federal Government and its intelligence agencies.
Not only will they be able to disrupt laptops and phones remotely, take down whole websites and servers, no matter where they are located in the world, they can also ‘lock’ out people from all their online accounts. Since C***d, the Coalition Government has passed law after law granting itself, and its various enforcement agencies, enormous powers of surveillance over its citizens. Many of these laws have been sold to Australians as necessary for ‘safety’, but mostly that’s just a pretext for what is little more than a naked grab for more data and more control.
The irony is that many of the threats citizens now face, from ‘cyber-attacks’ to ‘online safety’, only exist because of actions the government itself took which have made us all much more ‘unsafe’. The 2017 TOLA laws were the beginning. They forced tech companies to dismantle all the encryption technology and other sophisticated protections they had put in place to protect our privacy.
Of course, ‘privacy protections’ are anathema to governments now, and ours has waged a ceaseless war with ‘Big Tech’ companies like Facebook and Apple, aimed at removing every last vestige of privacy and protection we had.
The new Surveillance laws follow the passing of the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Bill last month, which gives the federal government the power to enter into top secret, data-sharing agreements with the US Government.
Another alarming piece of legislation is the Online Safety Bill, passed in June, which will give the government even more powers for removing online content it doesn’t like, and to block access to users and enforce stringent verification systems – including face scans and thumbprints.
All these new laws are the creation of the Orwellian Digital Transformation Agency, which is currently hard at work on another Bill. This one will require ALL Australians to submit identification checks before being allowed to comment or engage online