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Russell Broadbent slams Human Rights Commission failing Australians with 'Too Little, Too Late' on COVID-19 fallout

Russell Broadbent criticises the Human Rights Commission for failing Australians during COVID-19. He calls for accountability over lockdowns, mandates, and vaccine policies, arguing the Commission’s response is too little, too late.

By news@gippsland - 14th March 2025 - Back to News

The Australian Human Rights Commission is copping a lot of heat - and rightly so. Last week respected Liberal MP Julian Leeser delivered a ferocious attack on the Commission, saying its very existence should be called into question for failing to defend Jewish Australians. He said the commission is "flailing and failing" and that if the Commission "cannot fulfil its purpose, we must question its very existence" which includes a budget of $43m and 200 staff. I wholeheartedly agree with his sentiments.

The Commission's report highlights COVID-19’s human rights impact, but I’ve heard these censored stories of damage, despair, and desperation for five years, says Russell Broadbent

Collateral damage exposed

Yesterday the Commission released its report titled: Collateral Damage: What the untold stories from the COVID -19 pandemic reveal about human rights in Australia. I don’t need a report to tell me about the damage, despair and desperation left in the wake of Australia’s response to the pandemic, because I’ve been listening to these untold stories - untold because so many were censored - for the past five years.

Remember the hundreds of days in lockdown, mask mandates, limits on how far you could travel from your home, limits on how many times a day you could leave your home, limits on how much toilet paper you could buy, and vax mandates so you could go to work and feed your family? Of course, there were going to be consequences for such draconian and inhumane rules and excessive government overreach!

Too Little, Too Late

This report from The Human Rights Commission is way too little and way too late!

• What's the Commission doing about the 40 unvaxxed firies who are still refused the right to work due to covid mandates?
• What about the thousands of Australians whose lives have been ruined by vaccine injury?
• What about the punitive No Jab No Pay policies which punish parents who want to make an informed decision to not vaccinate their children?
• What about the small businesses who were forced to shut up shop while bottle-os, Bunnings and brothels stayed open?

The Commissioner says the report is not about placing blame - but it absolutely should be! Governments at all levels must be held to account for the pain, suffering and distress that’s been perpetrated against the people of this great nation. Basic human rights might have been an afterthought for the government and the human rights commission during the pandemic. But they weren’t for me.

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