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We Must Value Unpaid Work

Hello, Russell Broadbent here – Member for Monash. We hear a lot about our nation’s need to improve productivity, and last week, the government received the final report of the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce. In...

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Our Health - Our Decisions

Hello, Russell Broadbent, Member for Monash When the pandemic arrived on our shores in early 2020, we didn’t know what to expect.  But did you know that Australia had recently updated its Pandemic plan in...

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Rebuild Employment Services

This report is for the future, not the past. It is worthy of notice by the Australian people and worthy of consideration by the Australian government. This report is about common sense, not common perceptions....

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Dr X - Another Shocking Story

Hello, Russell Broadbent here. Member for Monash In response to my recent broadcasts highlighting the plight of suspended doctors, I received a very distressing call from a doctor who told me about some chilling trends...

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Dr Valerie's story

Hello, I’m Russell Broadbent, member for Monash. Today I’m continuing the series of stories about suspended doctors. These doctors have been suspended from practice during the Covid years for so-called crimes including questioning the narrative,...

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Josh's Story

Hello, Russell Broadbent here – your member for Monash. Fire Rescue Victoria is the last firefighting agency in Australia enforcing Covid vaccine mandates. On 20 October 2023 the Commonwealth government conceded the Covid-19 emergency response...

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Dr Beverley's story

Hello. Russell Broadbent here, Member for Monash. I was recently contacted by a number of medical doctors who have been suspended from practice or had their employment terminated during the covid years. Now, I don’t...

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Today is World Soil Day!

Did you know that healthy soil plays a critical role in our survival?
Whether it’s in our own gardens or backing our farmers to adopt new farming practices, we can all play a role in improving our region’s precious soil.
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Today is World Soil Day! Did you know that healthy soil plays a critical role in our survival? Whether it’s in our own gardens or backing our farmers to adopt new farming practices, we can all play a role in improving our region’s precious soil. For more information on how you can do your bit this World Soil Day, visit soilweekaustralia.com.au
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Did you know killing Dingos and farming sheep and cattle killing our souls but you don't care about anything except protection of PAEDOPHILE PROTECTION RACKET of VICTORIA

True. Six years you shall sow your land and you shall gather in its harvests: 11And in the seventh you shall plough it and you shall leave it and the poor of your people shall eat and the animals of the wilderness will devour their remainder and thus you shall do to your vineyards and to your olive yards. Exo. 23:10,11 Aramaic

New Zealand, The Philippines, Mexico, Estonia and Slovakia have all taken a stand against the WHO’s (World Health Organisation) proposed International Health Regulation Amendments.

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👍🌎most definitely…

Absolutely no to WHO !!!! No Consent by this living breathing Woman!!!! Thank you Russell Broadbent MP Australians need to wake up!!!!

Go you good thing Russell Broadbent👏👏👏👏

Between the United Nations and the World Health Organization. God help us

Sadly many don't understand the implications of the pandemic treaty and the loss of bodily autonomy.

It is a must to stop the UN,WHO,WEF and NWO from taking away our sovereignty!!!

Australia must exit the c0rrupt WHO and UN.

Where the fuck where you during the pandemic????? Oh that is right, towing your party line!!!! Fuck off you piece of SHIT

A bit of factual news between your taxpayer funded fake news Russell

Who is “WHO”? ……… big pharma, that’s Who😡😡😡😡

Get rid of WHO

WHO is paid far to much money and for what.

WHO are collectively a stubby short of a six pack. They make so many stupid decisions. We should not be influenced by them.

There will be Anarchy in Australia if Albo signs up to this

Thanks Russell Broadbent MP . I discussed this on community radio with Stand Up Now Australia : Listen to Stand Up Now Australia - Katrina Lane - Talk of Our Shire - 29 November 2023 by Donnybrook Balingup Community Radio on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/XuSC5

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On Wednesday 29th November (2023) the Prime Minister issued a formal apology to the survivors of thalidomide and their families.

This apology is welcome news for those who have suffered terribly because of a man-made tragedy involving a drug made for morning sickness during pregnancy.

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Do you not see the irony between the thalidomide balls up 60 years ago and today the balls up with the covid jab injuries and deaths. Do WE have to wait 60 years before they admit and apologise

oh the irony !

just an apology

You're really still alive? What a pity...

How about this old nonsense being related to how politicians (I know you did not!) legislated to force untried vaccines on Australian and can we expect an apology in 2093? Ask the question!

Apologies fix nothing .

Is Albanese a victim?

If it was long overdue then why didn’t you guys do it in the last decade while you were in charge Russ ?

What difference will that really make? He needs to get up to speed and apologise to all 💉injured that were coerced into taking it against they're will.

Yes, 60 odd years, but not this generations obligations to apologise. I think you are now just grabbing onto anything that might get you votes, now that you are not a liberal candidate. Unfortunately it is one of your foibles, you knew you were slipping and tried to get votes when you switched sides during the covid disaster. Why not just bow out gracefully? You would keep any respect that people had for you. You have been a loyal liberal for many years, but we all have to move on at sometime. Now is your time. Thank you for your service in the past.

And it was a scientist that discovered that thalidomide was harmful The same scientists that have proved Covid vaccines to be safe and effective So how about you get on board Russ ?

Thalidomide drug was ceased when many newborn were affected! Same can't be said for Trial drug being used now!!!

They still try out drugs on an unsuspecting public. It hasn’t stopped. Medical professionals ignore independent research.

No apology, it was deliberate

And the covid vax apology will come in 60 years after the indemnity and suppression orders are over,there’s a bit of a pattern with these apologies

How about an apology to those dead and damaged due to covid vaxx? And those who lost businesses etc due to mandates

History repeating itself. I raised the question of apology to people affected by government Covid jab policy with Dr Brian Walker MLC last year: Listen to Dr Brian Walker - MLC - Talk of Our Shire 7 September 2022 by Donnybrook Balingup Community Radio on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/ipEKn

so is the covid apology next. it certainly needs to be

And humanity didn’t learn From that mistake,what does it take for the penny to drop ?

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Hello, Russell Broadbent here – Member for Monash. We hear a lot about our nation’s need to improve productivity, and last week, the government received the final report of the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce. In short, the Taskforce recommends a plan to address the nation’s financial and productivity woes by, and I quote, unleashing the full capacity and contribution of women to the Australian economy. As if they’ve been slacking off all this time! In short, there appears to be a push for women to give birth to breed more taxpayers, then shove the baby into childcare so they can return to full-time paid work …the only work that’s seems valued in our society. My friend Barbara said she couldn’t be any more productive if she tried! She said “I work five nights a week as an emergency nurse, visit mum who’s in aged care an hour away from home, and help my son’s family with the grand kids in the afternoon. I’m exhausted! Her eyes then welled up with tired tears…This isn’t the way life is meant to be!” she said. The implicit assumption that we can squeeze more productivity out of women to help pay off our national debt is a short-sighted, short-term fix at best and a gross miscalculation of the value of unpaid, but essential work, the majority of which is performed by women! What value do we put on parenting, volunteering and caring roles? Or rather what’s the cost of not putting a value on these roles? Over the past four years, people have been pummelled like never before. You don’t have to look far to sense the deep pain and suffering of so many people …in fact there’s a palpable sense of despondency that I’ve never seen before. As a nation we can do better – we must do better. Maybe the 243 billion dollars raised from the stage 3 tax cuts could help boost Australia’s productivity instead of boosting the bank balance of people that don’t need it? That’s justice, as I see it!
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We Must Value Unpaid Work

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Hello, Russell Broadbent, Member for Monash When the pandemic arrived on our shores in early 2020, we didn’t know what to expect. But did you know that Australia had recently updated its Pandemic plan in August 2019? So, in fact, we were well prepared. This plan was founded on 100 years of pandemic experience and tailored to the Australian context. But what happened next, was not in that plan. Large-scale lock downs and school closures, mass vaccinations and masking, all these were not in the plan. Our pandemic plan was effectively tossed in the bin! Australia’s response seemed to copy other countries or was based on advice from the World Health Organisation – the WHO. However, many of the actions taken were not always in the best interests of Australia. Do you think an international body is best placed to make decisions for Australia? I don’t. But that’s exactly what’s being proposed as part of 307 International Health Regulation amendments which would see a future health emergency potentially controlled entirely by the WHO. How is that best for Australia? Yesterday I wrote to the Minister for Health expressing concern as to whether the amendments have been appropriately scrutinised by the government. Since 2012, Australia has allocated over $212 million to the World Health Organisation. And recently Minister Penny Wong announced the Government would provide a further $100 million over the next five years! Why are Australian taxpayers funding the World Health Organisation to take control of our emergency health response? Surely Australia is capable of doing this ourselves? Our own national interest must guide all future health responses. And that’s justice, as I see it.
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Our Health - Our Decisions

Russell Broadbent MP 171 views 1 December, 2023 3:30 pm

On Wednesday 29th of November (2023) the Prime Minister issued a formal apology to the survivors of thalidomide and their families. This apology is welcome news for those who have suffered terribly because of a man-made tragedy involving a drug made for morning sickness during pregnancy. On the 29th of November 1961 thalidomide was removed from sale in Australia after being linked to in utero death and significant birth defects including children being born without limbs. That’s over 60 years ago! This apology is long overdue. In 2019 a Senate report found that if the federal government had acted more quickly when the alarm was first raised, up to 20 per cent of survivors may not have been affected at all. The apology to the thalidomide survivors acknowledges the devastating effects of this drug and how the drug safety system had failed both parents and children. For too long parliaments, governments and drug safety regulators let these people down while they suffered the consequences of this tragedy. My heart goes out to those families and individuals affected by this failure, and I offer my heartfelt condolences for the suffering it caused. This was a dark period in Australia’s history, and we must learn from it. It is the government’s responsibility to ensure that every, single, drug, approved for use on the Australian people is as safe and effective as it is claimed to be. And that’s justice, as I see it.
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Thalidomide Apology: it’s long overdue

Russell Broadbent MP 101 views 1 December, 2023 12:14 pm

This report is for the future, not the past. It is worthy of notice by the Australian people and worthy of consideration by the Australian government. This report is about common sense, not common perceptions. People have very many barriers to overcome to access employment. The report is bipartisan, principled, professional, practical and passionate. Ideology played no part It is complete inasmuch as every recommendation is backed up by the evidence clearly articulated in the report. The voiceless and the troubled are our responsibility. We have heard you, and we have listened. Those workers at the coalface of the unemployed in this nation have our greatest respect and grateful thanks in that they are changing the lives of so many across this great south land. You are angels of the highest order, and I thank you for what you do. Each one of you knows who I'm talking to. I particularly draw attention to two members of the committee: the member for Bruce, for his passion, his wisdom and his experience as a former public servant in navigating what was a most difficult place to navigate—and I thank him sincerely for the work that he did and the professional way he carried out his obligations—and the member for Mayo, who brought her lived experience working in this sector to the tables of the committee. The member for Bruce carried the load, and the member for Mayo brought her lived experience working in the social security sector. I'm most appreciative of the secretariat for their professionalism and the way they went about supporting the chair of the committee, as well as those who were seconded from the department and all of the people who had any input into this excellent report. There is a dissenting report, which you can read; it speaks for itself. I'll leave that with the parliament.
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Rebuilding Employment Services

Russell Broadbent MP 84 views 30 November, 2023 3:27 pm

Hello, Russell Broadbent here. Member for Monash In response to my recent broadcasts highlighting the plight of suspended doctors, I received a very distressing call from a doctor who told me about some chilling trends emerging within Australia’s health care profession – stories of suppression, coercion, and an alarming violation of human rights. For this particular doctor, their crime was daring to question the established norms and expressing their personal concerns and critiques of various healthcare practices on social media. So, what did this doctor say that was so offensive? They said that ‘Vitamin D would enhance a person’s immune system.’ That’s right, they encouraged healthy eating and vitamin supplements. The doctor's posts were well-referenced and connected to their sincere apprehension about the potential side effects of medical treatments, the impact of medicine on patients, and the general well-being of the community. These social media posts triggered a relentless investigation by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, AHPRA. While the doctor believed they were advocating for the community's welfare, AHPRA saw their posts as potentially harmful to public safety. Not only that, their posts were then painted as conspiracy theories! The doctor was dragged through the legal system where they faced cross-examination by a vociferous barrister who relentlessly accused them of opposing governmental perspectives and pharmaceutical mandates. The doctor has been unable to work for more than two years, and the toll on their well-being and financial stability has been significant. It seems the very essence of the doctor-patient relationship is under threat. In a society that supposedly values free expression, individuality, and critical thinking, the suppression of doctors' voices is a very grave concern. It raises questions about the autonomy of medical professionals and the right to dissent in the name of public safety. That’s Just As I See It!
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Dr X - Another Shocking Story

Russell Broadbent MP 465 views 30 November, 2023 1:00 pm

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