During the Covid pandemic and the brutally authoritarian government responses, modelled on Communist China, the supposed guardians of our human rights were notably missing in action. The same quangos who’ve spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars helping bogus “refugees” game the court and welfare systems, or punishing white students for using the “Aborigines only” computers at universities, slunk into the shadows while Australians’ and New Zealanders’ most basic rights were rudely stripped away.
When black-clad Robocops in Melbourne were tear-gassing old ladies and smashing them into the concrete, and firing rubber bullets on the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance, where were the silver-tailed “Human Rights Commissioners”?
To damn him with faint praise, at least New Zealand’s Paul Hunt mumbled muted criticism and some waffle about “Te Tiriti”, and was one of the only quasi-government officials to even deign to talk to the Wellington protesters.
Hunt looks like a Human Rights superhero in comparison to Australia’s overpaid leeches. After nearly three years of sitting on their arses and collecting their fat stipends, they’re suddenly playing white knight — when it’s all over, bar the shouting.
The Courier Mail has reported that the Human Rights Commission (Commission) has sensationally intervened in the Supreme Court challenge brought by educators – believing the CHO has gone too far. According to reports, the Commission claimed the vaccine mandate for teachers and childcare workers was outside the Chief Health Officer (CHO) John Gerrard’s powers under the Public Health Act 2005. The Commission further stated that the right of the CHO to give such directions was conditional based on reasonable and demonstrably justifiable limits upon human rights and that based on the present evidence, the CHO’s mandates were not justified.
The intervention comes after Justice Dean Dalton ruled the CHO did not have to provide justification for his decisions as vaccine directions were legislative, not administrative in nature.
It seems that few people are being fooled by what looks like a case of trying to save face — and is certainly too little, and far too late.
Facebook posts have suggested the Commission is attempting to improve their image after failing to step in during the early stages of the mandates. Others believe this is more gaslighting by a government struggling to maintain control of a crumbling narrative.
Tweets in response to the Courier Mail article about ‘bombshell intervention in teacher vaccine challenge’ show just how unpopular these mandates are. One person tweeted ‘about time none of the mandates are justified’ and another said ‘and so it unravels’. There is a rising belief across social media that the ‘vaccine mandates are political not health related’. This sentiment could be justified given mandates ‘didn’t stop transmission’. People are frustrated over the mandates, stating ‘our schools are in crisis but not from covid. Because of the useless mandates. Let teachers work!’
But hey, thanks to the AHRC for finally acknowledging what so many Australians have been saying for two years.
According to the Australian Human Rights Commission, it can be unlawful to require an employee to be vaccinated and that ‘the need for vaccination should be assessed on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the nature of the workplace and the individual circumstances of each employee’.
Australian Free Independent Press Network
How many people have been relentlessly vilified by the legacy media and politicians, as well as tear-gassed, arrested, beaten, and shot with rubber bullets, for saying exactly the same thing? Aren’t we lucky to have a $30 million dollar quango to tell us what we already knew?
So, are we going to see the AHRC vilified as “right wing extremists” peddling “disinformation”, now? Asking for a few friends.
