When it comes to failed government schemes it doesn't get much worse than this.

From the Daily Telegraph, "Medical students are abusing a scheme that sees taxpayers foot the $100,000 bill for their university education in return for them practicing in the bush when they graduate.

"Just four per cent of the 13,521 participants (597 participants) have completed their return-of-service obligations and 779 participants (5.7 per cent) have withdrawn from the program.

"There are 12,145 remaining active participants and while half of them 6904 (56.8 per cent) are still studying, the rest have yet to fulfil their pledge to work in the bush after graduating the Department of Health has revealed.

"Medical students have 18 years in which to fulfil their promise to work in the bush for three years. Those who still refuse have to pay back the cost of their medical degree 'plus interest'.

"The failure of the program comes as a Senate committee reports that bush towns can’t find doctors and patients are waiting months to see a GP.

"The Senate report also makes the startling revelation than half of all Australia’s GP are now overseas trained as local medical students shun the career because of poor pay and conditions."

So what was supposed to be a scheme to help communities in need get the proper health care they deserve has turned into a multi-million dollar handout and the government has tried to hide its failure by importing doctors from overseas.

Have you ever heard a better example of how our failed governments operate than this?

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It takes a fair bit to shock me when it comes to Labor announcements but let me tell you when Anthony Albanese declared he would be a "Palaszczuk Prime Minster" I was shocked.

Honestly, Anthony Albanese is an idiot and a fool if he thinks we need someone like Anastacia Palaszczuk running Australia!

So far Anthony Albanese has said he will copy Hawke, Howard, and now Palaszczuk. So I have to ask, why is he so scared of just being himself?

The answer? I believe Anthony Albanese is worried that voters won't like the real Albanese.

This is because I've worked with Anthony, I've travelled on international delegations with him, I've seen him in action and while he might be a nice man, he isn't a true leader.

This lack of confidence probably explains why Albo is so desperate to copy other leaders, riding on their coattails and image.

It is almost as if this is his way of saying that not even he wants Anthony Albanese as Prime Minister of Australia.

 

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My first response when thinking about Bob Brown and the Greens' ill-fated 2019 convoy against coal in Queensland is to laugh because it was a joke.

But the more I think about it the more fired up I get because this attitude you see from Labor and the Greens and even many in the Liberal party is the height of hypocrisy.

They attack communities that rely on mining to survive while reaping all the benefits of the affordable energy coal provides to power their phones, iPads, electric scooters, their cars and air conditioning.

It's this out of sight, out of mind attitude that has led to rural and regional communities having their industries stripped away, services cut and their surrounding agricultural land sold off the foreign investors.

These combined effects have had a terrible impact on many of these communities across Australia and yet people in the capital cities not only turn a blind eye they run the members of these communities down by calling them racists, climate deniers, hicks, you name it...

Rural and regional communities provide the raw resources, food, and minerals that this country relies on to survive.

The revenue they generate props up our entire economy and helps pay for the free schools, hospitals, and roads that the people in capital cities take for granted.

It is high time the Liberals, Labor and Greens recognised that rural and regional communities deserve our support, not hypocrisy.

 

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From watching me at Senate Estimates many of you will be familiar with the process of Government bureaucrats taking questions on notice — they have a deadline of 6 weeks after being asked.

In October last year I asked on notice to be provided with the process by which deaths reported by doctors are reviewed by the TGA. What is the process used to take over 800 deaths reported as 'close in time' to receiving the vaccine, and whittle them down to say that only 11 were caused by the vaccine?

Watch here as the TGA ducks and weaves in interrogation. 

Currently there are 61 out of 136 questions on notice that are outstanding. We ask a lot of questions, but that is our job and it is right because we are asking on behalf of our constituents.

What's not right is that we have 45% of those questions unanswered. 

 

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I recently had the chance to sit down with Peta Credlin for an interview that features in her new documentary The Campaign Uncovered.

I don't often get the chance to talk about some of the things we covered so I really appreciated the opportunity.

It was an excellent documentary that takes an in-depth look at what really does go on behind the campaigns of political parties, including exposing the true nature of some of these fake independents who are really fronts from Labor and the Greens.

Click here for more of Peta's documentary

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Where's the death data for Aged Care Vaccinations?

I would have thought COVID data on deaths in Aged Care would be on hand for the Government, especially at Senate Estimates. Instead they've taken the questions on notice. I was also shocked to find that there had been no improvement in breaches of the Aged Care Quality Standards.

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The Queensland government reversed course yesterday, lifting mandates on most venues, despite last week labelling anyone who questioned them as an anti-vaxxer.

The corporate media have of course gone nuts, burying their lead with alarmist headlines on skyrocketing case numbers, deaths and new variants.

Ho hum. Some things never change.

What no media outlet will say, however, is that this unexpected 'change of heart' was almost certainly sparked by last week’s protests against the Bill extending emergency powers/measures another 6 months.

It mirrored moves made in Canada earlier this year, when even the most hardline Premiers, unexpectedly lifted mandates and restrictions across their states.

Anyone paying attention knew instantly that their sudden backflip was caused, not by new health advice from science we have never seen, but by the unparalleled success of the Canadian Trucker Convoy and the mass popular support it inspired worldwide.

Here in Australia, millions took to the road throughout February in 'Convoys to Canberra' that rocked the nation despite media efforts to suppress the story.

This was followed in March by the epic Convoy to Brisbane protests held outside Queensland Parliament, as the Government passed the deeply unpopular extension of Emergency powers’ Bill.

As the debate drew to a close last Thursday, MPs’ words were drowned out by the furious protest happening outside.

Not a single MP sitting in the House that day was left in any doubt as to just how furious ordinary Queenslanders were at the extensions of these authoritarian powers.

And this was no rag-tag bunch of Soros-funded activists, or Antifa 'tragics', but a true movement of 'the People' against their government and their representatives in Parliament.

The stuff of nightmares for globalists worldwide.

I will never forget the feeling in the House that day, as government MPs struggled to keep up the façade of indifference and disdain. The whole atmosphere, inside and outside the House, was absolutely electric!

Someone even said jokingly, that you could smell the ‘spirit of revolt’ in the air.

Those controlling things behind the scenes are NOT stupid. They know, better than anyone, how quickly the 'contagion' of rebellion can spread—like a virus. If left unchecked, it could prove impossible to stop altogether and that’s what they need to avoid at all costs.
Don’t ever let them tell you 'the people' are powerless, because it simply isn’t true and I reckon today proved it.

So let’s take this as a 'win' and use it as a launching pad to keep fighting until every last mandate, draconian law and restriction has been consigned to the dustbin of history, permanently.

Bring on the election….!

QLD Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk has just announced a partial backdown on jab mandates in Queensland.

It is being reported that "From 1:00am on April 14 the majority of venues will not require proof of vaccination to be granted entry.

"Pubs, cafes, restaurants, theme parks, casinos, cinemas, weddings, showgrounds, galleries, libraries, museums and stadiums will not have vaccine mandates in place."

Unfortunately, it seems that Queenslanders working in industries the Premier deems high risk will still face restrictions and/or mandates.

"These include hospitals, aged and disability care, prisons, schools, and early childhood centers."

While this is a major achievement for everyone who has been fighting to wind back mandates and restrictions there is still much work to be done and many questions to be answered.

I and the entire One Nation team are proud of the work we have done but we haven't done it alone. I'd like to thank the more than 200,000 Aussies who signed the One Nation petition against vaccine mandates and the more than 40,000 Aussies who have signed the One Nation petition calling for an investigation into this pandemic.

It is through continued pressure, both in parliament and in our communities that we have been able to begin the process of restoring our freedoms and removing these draconian mandates.

Thank you for your help and support. If we keep fighting this together I am confident we will win!

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Once upon a time, most Australians would have agreed that freedom as a value was something to be treasured above all else, even safety.

Sadly, decades of government propaganda on the need to subordinate freedom to safety has left its mark on the national psyche.

Today, the concept of freedom is treated very much as a second-order value. One that our governments are encouraging people to view as almost as big a threat to public safety as the virus itself.

Anyone who values freedom or wishes to live freely is increasingly being marginalised and spoken of as a 'risk' or 'danger' to others.

It is a dangerous way of thinking, and the corrosive effects it has had on people’s minds is especially evident amongst those under the age of 40.

In the past, the first question people asked when a new law was proposed was 'Does it infringe on my freedom?'

Today, the only question anyone asks is 'Will it make us safer?'

Bit by bit, we are being transformed from a freedom-loving society into one that values safety and security above ALL else.

With COVID, we were told that if everyone curbs their free lifestyles, if they agree to have much less freedom, then society as a whole will be made 'more safe'.

And that is essentially what we have done for over two years. We gave up our freedoms in order to feel 'more safe'.

We gave up our freedom of movement, our freedom of association, along with our freedom to work, worship, play, and be involved as citizens in civic life.

Just about every important civil liberty and freedom we held was traded away in exchange for 'safety'.

But far from making us feel 'more safe' the loss of freedom and autonomy has had the opposite effect, making us all feel a lot more anxious and insecure.

This is the sad paradox of allowing fear to govern your thoughts and behaviour.

The more obsessed you become about feeling safe, and the more you organise your life around being safe—the less safe you feel.

There can be no safety without freedom.

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