Almost two years after it was introduced to the Senate, One Nation’s bill to outlaw discrimination against Australians who refused mandated COVID-19 vaccine jabs was finally debated this week.

Pauline Hanson launched a blistering attack on the unelected, faceless bureaucrats who wielded unprecedented power over the Australian people during the pandemic, trampling their fundamental human rights with vaccine mandates.

These bureaucrats and public health ‘experts’ have largely been indemnified from any legal action that might be taken against them over the impacts of their advice.

And weren’t there some serious impacts: 144,000 reported advserse reactions (plus many unreported), and a lot of emerging evidence of long-term health problems arising from the jabs like heart problems in men, menstrual issues with women, endocrine problems for everyone, and mental health issues as well.

Despite the Queensland Supreme Court ruling in February that police and nurse vaccine mandates were unlawful – and former premier Dominic Perrottet’s admission last week that mandates in New South Wales were wrong – some mandates are still being maintained, and many skilled workers remain unable to get their jobs back.

Unlike the first time in 2021 when One Nation moved similar legislation during the pandemic itself, the vote in the Senate this week was close—28–32—with the rest of the Coalition (from the relative safety of the opposition benches) finally joining their senators like Rennick and Canavan in supporting the bill, along with Victorian senator Ralph Babet.

Labor and the Greens teamed up to prevent it, showing their ongoing disregard for the Australian people’s right to choose.

Pauline strongly re-iterated One Nation’s call – and the Prime Minister’s promise – for a full Royal Commission into the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. One Nation continues to pursue the Royal Commission as a priority to ensure that in a future emergency, basic human rights will not be cast aside by the governments who are supposed to protect them.