INCREASING numbers of doctors are speaking out against the dictatorial, inquisitorial powers of the Federal Government’s agency that regulates the activity of doctors and other health practititioners.
Yesterday, feminists from the Brisbane Meanjin group stood outside the offices of the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency with placards protesting its authoritarian control over the medical opinions of its membership.
“Girls who hate their bodies are not boys,” one placard declared. “AHPRA you’re compromised. Come out of ACON,” said another, in reference to the AIDS Council of NSW, a group steeped in LGBTQ ideology that supposedly looks after the “health, inclusion and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV”.
AHPRA is accused by the protesters of bullying and making an example of members who have reservations about the gender affirmation model of treatment for children and young people that has captured the AHPRA hierarchy.
“Most AHPRA members are too frightend to speak up because AHPRA has the power to withdraw their ways of making a living,” the protesters posted on social media.
“AHPRA is accountable to the Australian Parliament via the Health Ministerial Council.
“We call on the council to undertake an independent review of AHPRA and oversee its restructure.
“All the passersby who spoke to us today expressed support for our work, no one expressed any disagreement with us. One passerby even agreed to have his photo taken holding one of our corflutes,” a protester said.
Queensland’s representative on the council is Health Minister Tim Nicholls MP, and it is headed up by Federal Health Minister Mark Butler.
Cairns News previously reported on the case of Queensland junior doctor William Bay, who took AHPRA to the Supreme Court over its suspension of him after five people allegedly complained against his statements questioning the safety and viability of Covid vaccines.
On December 13, 2024, Justice Thomas Bradley overturned the suspension placed on Dr Bay’s registration on August 17th 2022, that prohibited him from practising as a medical practitioner. AHPRA was acting on behalf of the Medical Board of Australia.
The five complaints asserted that Dr Bay placed the public at risk of harm by “spreading information unsupportive of vaccines on social media platforms”.
In one instance, Dr Bay claimed that COVID-19 vaccines had caused harm to his patients and had killed another. On a separate occasion, he broadcast live from outside a patient’s home, where he called for an ambulance as the patient was suffering from chest pains, all the while, making negative comments about vaccines.
We also covered Dr Bay’s dramatic protest against AHPRA and COVID-19 vaccines when he livestreamed from inside the AMA National Conference, shouting out demands that the 400 doctors attending the conference stop forcing vaccines on patients and to stop making false claims about the efficacy of vaccines.
