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Australian Government Adopts Mandatory Sentences for Hate Crimes and Terror Offenses
Labor reverses stance under opposition pressure, introducing minimum penalties to address antisemitism and hate speech concerns.

Three years after it became universally acknowledged that Covid vaccines provide negligible protection against infection and transmission, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has finally dropped its Covid vaccine mandate. ...

But though the mandates are now over, AFP employees pushed out of the job are still living with the effects. Former officers describe feeling “shunned” and “treated like a criminal” by the AFP, with the loss of their careers, livelihoods, and homes taking a devastating toll.

But though the mandates are now over, AFP employees pushed out of the job are still living with the effects. Former officers describe feeling “shunned” and “treated like a criminal” by the AFP, with the loss of their careers, livelihoods, and homes taking a devastating toll.

Australian Gov't Abused Human Rights During COVID-19 Pandemic: Australian Human Rights Commission

"Federal, state and territory governments did not adequately consider or protect people's human rights when implementing pandemic response measures."

Australia’s own Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has issued a damning verdict on the country’s pandemic response, confirming what many Australians already knew: government policies during COVID-19 caused catastrophic harm to human rights and disproportionately devastated the nation’s most vulnerable.

Regarding its new 260-page report Collateral Damage, the AHRC declares:

“Federal, state and territory governments did not adequately consider or protect people’s human rights when implementing pandemic response measures.”

The findings, based on over 5,000 personal stories and consultations, point to one conclusion: Australia’s pandemic response wasn’t just overreach—it was systemic abuse.

“The pandemic response saved lives, but it also came at a significant cost, with some Australians feeling they were overlooked in the nation’s push to contain COVID-19.”

If this is what Australia’s own Human Rights Commission admits, how many other governments around the world are guilty of committing the same—or even worse—abuses in the name of public health?

Australian Man Brutalized by Police For Not Wearing Mask During COVID Lockdown Has Died

An Australian man whose violent arrest during Melbourne’s COVID lockdowns drew international outrage has died—years after suffering traumatic injuries when police slammed his head into the pavement...

An Australian man whose violent arrest during Melbourne’s COVID lockdowns drew international outrage has died—years after suffering traumatic injuries when police slammed his head into the pavement because he wasn’t wearing a mask.

Daniel Peterson-English was thrown headfirst into the ground by a police officer at Flinders Street Station in 2021—an incident caught on video that sparked international outrage.

The disturbing footage showed Acting Sergeant Beau Barrett approaching Peterson-English from behind and slamming him to the pavement with brutal force.

Acting Sergeant Beau Barrett was charged with recklessly causing injury and assault following the 2021 incident, which occurred on the same day as a large anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne’s CBD. Despite the graphic nature of the footage, the case against Barrett was ultimately dismissed.

Now, three and a half years later, the man at the centre of that disturbing arrest—32-year-old Daniel Peterson-English—has died.

According to Sydney-based lawyer and filmmaker Mark Tarrant, Daniel’s mother, Margaret, confirmed her son passed away on March 15. She described him as a “fragile young man totally abused by the state,” whose life was irreversibly altered by the trauma he endured.

A coroner’s report will be released in June.

News.com.au report: In the disturbing footage of Mr Peterson-English’s arrest, the 32-year-old’s head could be heard hitting the hard floor and a pair of headphones were knocked off.

According to a caption written by the woman who initially posted the video, the man was knocked unconscious and there was “blood and urine everywhere”.

“This poor guy was calm, he was just talking to the police,” the caption said.

“You can see it in the video then he gets thrown to the ground. You can hear his face hit the tiles.”

The woman later told news.com.au the man was unconscious “for a while” and when he woke up was calling for his mother.

“We are all very disturbed by this and I’ve been inundated with people worldwide wanting to know if this man is all right,” she said.

“We understand the paramedics looked at him but not sure what happened after that.”

Before he was tackled to the ground, Mr Peterson-English was arrested, fined for not wearing a mask, and released, The Age reported. The tackle occurred after he returned to the area,the publication reported.

Australia quietly pivots on Covid-19 vaccine policy

It didn’t come with a press conference or a media blitz. In fact, there was no announcement at all.

But sometime around 2 May 2025, the Australian Department of Health quietly removed its recommendation for Covid-19 vaccination in healthy children and adolescents under 18.

The change was tucked into an online update to the Australian Immunisation Handbook—no headline, no ministerial statement, no media campaign to inform the public.

For the first time since the rollout began, Australian health authorities now say that unless a child has underlying medical conditions, he or she does not need the vaccine. ...

Denmark, meanwhile, was ahead of the curve.

It stopped recommending the vaccine for healthy children back in 2022, citing data showing that severe Covid in children was exceedingly rare and that the benefits of mass vaccination did not outweigh the harms.

Australia’s policy reversal might be late, but what makes it striking is how quietly it was done—and how much it implicitly concedes.

For years, anyone who questioned the need to vaccinate healthy children was dismissed as anti-science or dangerous. Now, the same authorities who widely promoted the shots are quietly walking it back.

And the adverse events that critics raised early on—myocarditis, pericarditis, and other post-vaccine complications—are no longer fringe concerns. They’re acknowledged in official risk assessments.

The shift also comes at a time when the legal and regulatory framework that enabled the rapid approval of mRNA vaccines is under growing scrutiny. ...

The argument that urgency justified shortcuts has worn thin.

The real emergency now is institutional—one of captured regulators, collapsing public trust, and a health system so entangled with the pharmaceutical industry it can no longer tell the difference between evidence and marketing.

In a major policy reversal, the Australian government has finally admitted that mRNA “vaccines” are more harmful to healthy young people than the COVID-19 virus itself.

In a quietly released but momentous update, the Australian government has officially reversed its Covid “vaccination” policy for children and teens.

The government is now stating that healthy individuals under 18 should not receive the mRNA injection, citing potential risks that outweigh any alleged benefit.

According to the Australian Department of Health, as of June 3, 2025:

“COVID-19 vaccine is not recommended for healthy infants, children, or adolescents who do not have medical conditions that increase their risk of severe illness.”

The advisory goes further, explaining that because of the “extremely low” risk of serious Covid illness in healthy children:

“The benefits of vaccination are not considered to outweigh the potential harms.”

Anti-immigration rallies held across Australia as clashes break out in Adelaide and Melbourne

Anti-immigration rallies have been held across the nation's capital cities, with counter-demonstrations also organised across the country.

Scuffles have broken out at rallies in Adelaide and Melbourne.

In Melbourne, anti-immigration protesters and attendees of a pro-Palestine rally clashed in the CBD.

The Australian government has started rolling out a new test for its integrated digital ID framework as the country pushes to expand its national identity systems.

Governments worldwide continue tightening their grip on citizens through expanding digital identity systems. ...

The federal government has launched a new digital ID trial in the rental sector at the same time officials prepare to impose national online age-verification requirements by the end of the year. ...

Combined with the new rental initiative, critics warn that Australia is building the foundation for a centralized digital identity system capable of authenticating and tracking users across multiple areas of life, from renting a home to banking to accessing content online.

The more interconnected these systems become, the easier it is for governments and corporations to monitor individuals, control access to services, and collect data across sectors.

The more interconnected these systems become, the easier it is for governments and corporations to monitor individuals, control access to services, and collect data across sectors.

On Wednesday, Australia implemented a world-first law banning under-16s from holding social media accounts, deactivating more than 1 million accounts across 10 platforms including Facebook and TikTok.

Citing child welfare concerns, Australian officials argued the law aims to protect children, with the Australian federal parliament passing the bill in last year, following a study on social media use.

Australians have now woken up to the further reality that on December 27, web browsers will be subjected to the same ‘papers please’ restrictions as social media (biometrics, digital ID, government ID, individual surveillance, etc.). Many techbros are opining that this is an unprecedented situation for a so-called ‘democratic’ western nation. Please understand, Australia is just the canary in the coal mine. It is coming for everyone. ...

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/04/big-brother-come-december-27-every-internet-search-will-require-digital-id-verification-in-australia-n3808509

"Starting December 27, Australians will be forced to upload government ID every time they search the web while logged in. Google, Bing—it doesn’t matter. No ID, no search.

The excuse? Protecting kids from adult content. The reality? A full-scale experiment in digital control.

- Mandatory ID uploads for all users—teenagers, seniors, everyone.

- Facial recognition or digital ID linking as the "convenient" alternative.

- No opt-out. No transparency. Just compliance.

This isn’t just about Australia. It’s a test case for global surveillance. Once the infrastructure exists, what’s stopping other governments from adopting it? Tracking searches? Censoring results? Who decides what you’re allowed to see?

If this stands, your country will be next.

The slippery slope starts here. Will you let them build it?"