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Scams: They can happen to anyone
24 April, 2024
Russell Broadbent here, your Independent Member for Monash. Did you know that in 2022 alone, Australians lost three billion dollars to scammers? ...
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Excess Deaths and Cardiac Arrests: Why the increase?
23 April, 2024
Russell Broadbent here, your Independent Federal Member for Monash. One hundred years ago, in country areas across Victoria and Australia, 20% of ...
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Numbers Tell the Story
22 April, 2024
Russell Broadbent here, your Independent Member for Monash. I’ve had thousands of conversations with people across our nation about a whole range ...
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Russell Broadbent MP

Russell Broadbent MP
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Federal Member for Monash

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Lest We Forget. Dawn Service at Phillip Island.
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It seems many have forgotten.

🌺 Lest We Forget 🌺 Let’s not forget too the excess deaths in Australia since 2021, which are now around four times the number of Australians killed in the Gallipoli campaign.

Anzac Day is a time to honour those who have served and continue to serve for our nation.

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Anzac Day is a time to honour those who have served and continue to serve for our nation. Lest we forget.
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To everyone who freely gave away your freedom to weak little men like Dan Andrews for a so called virus with 99.9% survival rate … hang your heads in shame, you are an embarrassment to the Anzacs

Lest We Forget

Did you know that in 2022 alone, Australians lost $3 billion dollars to scammers?

Every day, scammers are becoming more sophisticated in getting their hands on our money and personal details.

This is your reminder to be wary of incoming scams – especially through phone calls, emails, and social media.

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#Sunexspy on instagram is one of the best platforms I will recommend you to contact if you have been scammed in any way they are very professional in what they do quickly contact them on instagram for fast recovery

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Russell Broadbent here, your Independent Member for Monash. Did you know that in 2022 alone, Australians lost three billion dollars to scammers? Every day, scammers are becoming more sophisticated in getting their hands on our money and personal details. If you have been scammed and lost money or personal information, make sure you: Contact your bank immediately, and report that you have been scammed. Contact IDCare on 1800 595 160 or online at https://www.idcare.org/. Report the scam to Scamwatch online at https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/. You should never feel ashamed or embarrassed about being scammed – it can happen to anyone. In fact, over five hundred thousand Australians fell victim to a scam in the 2022-23 financial year. This is your reminder to be wary of incoming scams – especially through phone calls, emails, and social media. Let’s make Australia a no-go zone for scammers. That’s justice as I see it.
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Scams: They can happen to anyone

Russell Broadbent MP 145 views 24 April, 2024 1:51 pm

Russell Broadbent here, your Independent Federal Member for Monash. One hundred years ago, in country areas across Victoria and Australia, 20% of women were dying in childbirth, as compared to those women in the city who only had a 3% chance of death after childbirth. The country communities were so outraged by this that local and state governments created bush nursing hospitals across country areas in Victoria and Australia, and reduced the incidences of deaths through childbirth to 3% – the same as their city cousins. So when I read in the Herald Sun recently a report that there’s been a 20% increase in cardiac arrests in Victoria since 2019, and that 95% of patients are dying, I was reminded of the mortality rates amongst women all those years ago. If that’s not shocking enough, the proposed response is to push for more first aid training and defibrillators. But as in the past, we must ask: what is the root cause of this massive spike in cardiac arrests? I don’t know if it’s the covid injection. But if it’s not, surely we must ask ourselves why? Why is there a 20% increase in cardiac arrests over the past 5 years? Given Australia’s unexplained excess deaths, I have written to the Hon Mark Butler - the Minister for Health – to ask if his department is willing to include Covid-19 vaccine mandates in their scope of investigation into the possible cause of this very disturbing trend. I ask these questions as I have done for 3 years. Without judgment of anybody, only asking why. That’s justice as I see it.
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Excess Deaths and Cardiac Arrests: Why the increase?

Russell Broadbent MP 815 views 23 April, 2024 3:09 pm

Russell Broadbent here, your Independent Member for Monash. I’ve had thousands of conversations with people across our nation about a whole range of injustices suffered during the Covid-pandemic. Conversations about the blatant disregard of our human rights by government officials that led to record-high days in lockdown, border closures, both state and international, forced vaccination mandates and especially the right to gather together, for example no church services. A picture paints a thousand words, and I could talk for days about the hardships endured by Australians during the pandemic. But the numbers tell an even more riveting story: There was a total of $577 billion taxpayer dollars spent on the Covid response by federal and state governments. This includes $247 million on Covid tests and over $18 billion on Covid vaccines and treatment supply. The Australian government purchased over 267 million Covid vaccine doses. Enough to vaccinate Australia’s population ten times over! And last week it was reported that of these 267 million doses, only 26% have been used and 35% have been wasted – just thrown away! That’s millions of taxpayer dollars, literally down the drain, while everyday Australians struggle to make ends meet! Where’s the accountability? Where’s the explanation for such incompetence? The Department of Health posted 19 thousand times about Covid on social media, and the Australian Government censored 4000 social media posts as ‘misinformation’, many of which have subsequently been proven to be true! And finally, there were 2662 complaints made to the Australian Human Rights Commission about Covid-19 policies. I ask you this – what sort of picture do these numbers paint for how we handled the pandemic? A pretty ugly one if you ask me. And that’s justice as I see it.
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Numbers Tell the Story

Russell Broadbent MP 1.4K views 22 April, 2024 4:47 pm

Nearly three years on, grieving mum, Raelene, is still fighting for answers as to why her daughter died suddenly and unexpectedly after the Covid vaccine. The Prime Minister promised a Royal Commission into Australia’s Covid response. What changed his mind?
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Raelene Fighting for Answers

Russell Broadbent MP 629 views 18 April, 2024 4:53 pm

Russell Broadbent here, your Independent Member for Monash. I know for many people, the so-called pandemic years are a distant memory. 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. Saying that out loud sounds a bit crazy, doesn’t it? It’s understandable that many Australians want to forget this time of their lives. But it’s imperative that we don’t. Every day I hear from people who are still suffering the impacts of these decisions – especially desperately needed frontline workers in Victoria who are still mandated to have three experimental covid injections! The human cost of Australia’s pandemic response – the breakdown of families, loss of employment, vaccine injuries, unprecedented restriction on our human rights – cannot be swept under the rug as time passes. The Australian Human Rights Commission has received over 2,500 complaints regarding Covid-19 – and they are still counting. Public submissions have been released from those individuals and organisations who wished to have their say in the Commonwealth Government COVID-19 Response Inquiry. In her public submission, Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay says: ‘there have…been significant social and community impacts resulting from Australians being required to endure some of the most significant restrictions on our human rights ever imposed during peacetime.’ Funnily enough, human rights are not expressly mentioned in the Terms of Reference of the Government’s Inquiry. As Ms Finlay says, how can the Government fully understand the human cost of the pandemic if they do not consider the blatant disregard and neglect of Australia’s human rights? She also said: ‘Similarly, express exclusions of actions taken…by state and territory governments from the Inquiry means that key aspects of Australia’s pandemic response which were primarily the responsibility of the state government – such as lockdowns and state border closures – will not be examined’. Some Victorians spent over 200 days – let me repeat that, 200 days – in lockdown. Melbournians endured the longest lockdown in the world! How can the government possibly get a comprehensive review of our pandemic response without reference to the lived experience of millions of Australians from state restrictions? As Ms Finlay says: ‘public response measures – including international and interstate border closures, hotel quarantine, extended periods of lockdowns, school closures, curfews and other restrictions on movement and association, vaccine mandates, mask mandates and playground closures’ – had a significant (and often hidden) human cost’. I agree with the Human Rights Commissioner, but let’s take it one step further – the human cost of pandemic restrictions was intentionally censored by government and the media in the name of ‘protecting’ the public form so-called ‘misinformation’. It’s alarming that those measures that infringed our human rights the most – namely public response measures imposed by state and territory governments – are expressly excluded by this Inquiry. And it’s alarming that human rights aren’t even mentioned in the Terms of Reference – as though they simply do not matter. The only way these two factors will be considered is if we have a Royal Commission – surely Australians deserve that much. The human cost and suffering caused by our pandemic response continues to this day. And governments across the nation should be held accountable. That’s justice as I see it.
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The Hidden Human Cost of the Pandemic

Russell Broadbent MP 2K views 12 April, 2024 11:54 am

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