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A line has been drawn in the sand and it is all about vaccine passports being used internally in Australia.

We have put up with so many incursions on our freedoms over the last year. As a nation we have been remarkably willing to take personal and collective hits for what we are told is the greater good.

But now I feel the line has been well and truly crossed with the talk of vaccine passports being our way back to ‘normal’. What sort of spin is this… a future with vaccination passports would be grossly abnormal, highly divisive and about as un-Australian as it gets.

I am not the only one who feels this way. But what is surprising is that it seems that courageous right wing conservatives are leading the charge. It is they who are standing up for our rights.

Thankfully Gladys Berejeklian has come out against vaccine passports as well. This is significant, as Scott Morrison has suggested that the states would be responsible for implementing vaccine passports. With the state premiers and their chief medical officers having this option there is plenty of room for concern.

I love my wonderful Northern Rivers community and I cannot stand by and watch as the future of our young people is jeopardised. A future that, on top of the heavy burden that they will already have to bear, is the looming prospect of having to submit to ongoing vaccinations or have their lives cancelled by not being able to participate in many key aspects of normal life.

This I cannot allow. I have drafted a petition to Ban Vaccination Passports in Australia that I will launch soon.

I will also be calling a Town Hall type meeting at the Byron Bay Community Centre for members of our community to voice their opinions and concerns. All points of view will be respectfully heard. There is great strength in our community and we have never been afraid to confront difficult situations.


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4 COMMENTS

  1. It is true the left and greens have become the keenest believers in Totalitarian Great Reset while it is the old right putting up some faint resistance……..Topsy-turvy it is.

    Lock downs, closed borders, vax passports……are here to stay….. where will you stand.. as Resister… or among the many Collaborator… or become the full Enforcer.

  2. What is the real reason for NOT willing to have a vaccine passport? When I joined the Army in 1962 we already had such passport and the vaccination records of babies is around this world already for many many years. Not that long ago you could not travel without a vaccination record anyway, so what is the real problem? If it is personal freedom or similar, then what are you doing on any social media? Get real and if you something to hide than it is maybe different but otherwise, the world gave up personal freedom a long time ago and when you look at nearly EVERYBODY looking/speaking etc on their mobile phone then it is time to realise that you gave your “freedom” away a fair while ago or are people really that stupid not to realise that they are being watched 24 hours a day?

    • The real reason is we do not want to become communist China and surrender to a social class system determined by elite scum. Just because you opt to use a social media platform does not give them the right to own and navigate your life or for anyone else to either. In 1962 it wasn’t even possible to have the sort of passport they are talking about today, so you are very wrong on that point. If you honestly cannot see the huge problem and impact these draconian vaccine passports would have on peoples lives you are that stupid. At this point you can opt in and out of platforms and whether you choose to own a mobile or not, with vaccine passports that will not be an option.

    • This SCAMDEMIC was conceived in treachery, planned years ago (Rockefeller Institute LOCKSTEP) and as such should be stridently condemned
      The PCR tests are bogus as witnessed by their inventor, Kary Mullis (who died months before Covid 1984 scam was released)
      The majority of health officials are directly or indirectly on the Gates, Big Pharma payroll.
      This is monumental tyranny and your subordinate history and apologia and acceptance (ergo endorsement) is a cowardly disgrace.

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