JUST HOW LONG HAS OUR GOVERNMENTS
ALLOWED THIS ON AUSTRALIAN SOIL?
: we know there’s been 10 Joint Projects with the Wuhan Institute of Virology over a decade.
Gain of function research in Australia Why the secrecy1:
by Senator Gerard Rennick
In estimates I asked a number of agencies whether or not anyone is reviewing the 17 gain of function research projects being funded by the Federal government. The AFP, ASIO or the TGA would take no responsibility for these projects despite the significant threat to the safety of the population.
The National Health and Medical Research Council, who approves and decides on the funding of this research didn't want to know about it either.
When asked about the gain of function used in the vaccine, (codon optimisation to improve antigen expression on page 19 of TGA FOI 2389-6) the TGA Head, John Skerritt claimed he couldn't answer the question because the document wasn't in front of him. Why he would need the document is beyond me. He would have very well known what I was talking about as the original FOI redacted this vital information about gain of function being used.
You will notice the footage showing Skerritt smirking as Senator Gallagher runs interference for him. It’s all a joke to them.
It beggars’ belief in light of the fact that it is now widely accepted that the Covid virus was the result of a lab leak (funded by Fauci for gain of research purposes) that our authorities don't want to address the risks of gain of function research.
TO QUOTE THE AUSTRALIAN2:
"Health Minister Mark Butler has invoked a claim of public interest immunity to block the release of researchers’ names and institutions associated with 17 commonwealth-funded gain-of-function research projects that increase the virulence of viruses in a laboratory.
The NHMRC review was ordered by former health minister Greg Hunt after The Australian in June last year revealed that the CSIRO and several Australian universities engaged in at least 10 joint projects with the Wuhan Institute of Virology over a decade.
The review identified 13 projects had used live animals including mice and ferrets, three projects used human tissues and others involved the use of bat tissue and avian cells. In one project, components of research conducted in Canada and the US used genetically modified organisms and live infectious agents."
EVIDENCE OF GAIN OF FUNCTION STUDY IN AUSTRALIA
PFIZER DOCUMENT SUBMITTED TO THE TGA: Nonclinical Evaluation Report3 58 pages.
– Page 19 – V8 and V9 have identical amino acid sequences of the encoded antigens and differ only in their codon optimisation sequences, which were designed to improve antigen expression.
PFIZER DOCUMENT SUBMITTED TO THE TGA: Nonclinical Evaluation Report. Generic Name: BNT162b2 [mRNA] COVID-19 vaccine Trade Name: COMIRNATY Submission No: PM-2020-05461-1-2 Sponsor/Author: Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd Date Submitted: January 2021 Pages: 58 | Filesize: 2.52 MB Download PDF Copy: https://t.me/FOURCMVAULT/349[EDITORIAL] – The Australian:
Virus lab workers protected ‘for their safety’.4
"Health Minister Mark Butler has invoked a claim of public interest immunity to block the release of researchers’ names and institutions associated with 17 commonwealth-funded gain-of-function research projects that increase the virulence of viruses in a laboratory.
The NHMRC review was ordered by former health minister Greg Hunt after The Australian in June last year revealed that the CSIRO and several Australian universities engaged in at least 10 joint projects with the Wuhan Institute of Virology over a decade.
The review identified 13 projects had used live animals including mice and ferrets, three projects used human tissues and others involved the use of bat tissue and avian cells. In one project, components of research conducted in Canada and the US used genetically modified organisms and live infectious agents."
Like all previous governments they knew fully what’s being done on Australian soil:
does this make you feel safe knowing this?
RELATED: Hansard 13/02/20235
Chamber: Committee on 13/02/2023
Item: Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee – 13/02/2023 – Estimates – HOME AFFAIRS PORTFOLIO – Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)
Senator RENNICK: I just want to follow-up on a previous FOI that was rejected with regard to 17 Commonwealth funded Gain-of-Function research projects that increased the virulence of viruses in a laboratory. I’ve asked you this previously. Who is responsible for the oversight of those research projects, given that they’re designed to increase the virulence of a virus and we’ve just spent the last three years going through COVID?
→ Mr Burgess: I don’t know that one. I could take it on notice to find out who would be responsible. It’s not ASIO’s issue to manage or regulate.
Senator RENNICK: I’d appreciate that because the risk, obviously, of these viruses escaping from these 17 different universities, I would have thought, could be quite—
→ Mr Burgess: Again, unless there was an individual who was doing that for a whole range of threats to security, whether, or not a virus leaks from medical research is not a matter for ASIO to investigate or be concerned about.
Senator RENNICK: I guess that’s the point. It is a threat to security if something goes wrong.
→ Mr Burgess: There’s a biosecurity hazard, yes, but it’s not something that ASIO would focus on unless there was some extremist element that was looking to do that for some politically motivated cause.
Senator RENNICK: Could you find out on notice who would be responsible for the other side of that?
→ Mr Burgess: I can pass the question on—
→ CHAIR: Thank you, Senator Rennick.
RELATED: Hansard 16/02/2023
Chamber: Committee on 16/02/2023
Item: Community Affairs Legislation Committee – 16/02/2023 – Estimates – HEALTH AND AGED CARE PORTFOLIO – National Health and Medical Research Council
Senator RENNICK: Hi, guys. My understanding is that it’s your agency that is responsible for reviewing the gain-of-function research projects and, basically, providing funding. Who reviews those projects to make sure that the quality control is appropriate so that nothing goes wrong?
→ Prof. Kelso: The work you’re talking about, I think, is the review that we did for the previous minister for health, which was to investigate whether the Australian government had funded or conducted any gain-of-function research over the last 10 years.
We released that report last April, having provided it to the minister in March. That was a specific review for a specific purpose, and the report contains the material.
Beyond that, research grant proposals come through a normal review process if they’re applying for funding from the NHMRC or the MRFF, and then it’s a question for ethics committees, biosafety committees and sometimes the OGTR to determine whether the project, if it’s funded and happens to be relevant to the issues that you’re raising, has appropriate control and whether it should be done.
Senator RENNICK: Thank you.
RELATED: Hansard 16/02/2023
Chamber: Committee on 16/02/2023
Item: Community Affairs Legislation Committee – 16/02/2023 – Estimates – HEALTH AND AGED CARE PORTFOLIO – Therapeutic Goods Administration
Senator RENNICK: Well, we’ll take that. I just want to refer to page 19 of the Pfizer nonclinical report. In the first paragraph below the first table it says, ‘V8 and V9 have identical amino acid sequences of the encoded antigens and differ only in their codon optimisation sequences, which were designed to improve antigen expression.’ Why did you originally redact that paragraph in the original freedom of information document given that proved that the vaccine was gain-of-function that increased the toxicity of the vaccine by increasing the spike protein?
→ Dr Skerritt: I don’t have the relevant document in front of me, so we’ll have to take that on notice.
→ CHAIR: You can take that on notice.
Senator RENNICK: Okay. I’ve just read it out to you.
→ Dr Skerritt: But I don’t have the document in front of me.
Senator RENNICK: This vaccine increases the antigen expression, right, of the spike protein. It increases the amount of protein made by the vaccine over the virus. A traditional vaccine is generally attenuated not empowered with a greater expression-making function. So, do you accept the vaccine is a gain-of-function?
→ Senator Gallagher: Senator Rennick, it’s been taken on notice.
Senator RENNICK: Do you accept the vaccine is a gain-of-function because of the codon optimisation?
→ Senator Gallagher: We don’t have the document that you’re citing from.
Senator RENNICK: Will you not interrupt me please!
→ Senator ROBERTS: Senator Rennick has explained it to you.
→ Senator Gallagher: I’m trying to facilitate—
Senator RENNICK: No, no, no! Don’t interrupt me, Minister!
→ Senator Gallagher: We don’t have the document.
→ Senator ROBERTS: You don’t need it.
→ Senator Gallagher: Yes, we do!
→ CHAIR: Senators, I was listening carefully. Dr Skerritt has taken the first question on notice. If you are directing this as a new question, he said he’s not able to answer the questions on that document.
Senator RENNICK: Okay, avoiding the question.
→ Senator Roberts interjecting—
→ CHAIR: He’s taken it on notice—apologies—not that he can’t answer it. He’ll come back to you.
EDITORIAL: Gain of function research in Australia Why the secrecy | SEE URL: https://gerardrennick.com.au/gain-of-function-research-in-australia-why-the-secrecy/
[EDITORIAL] Virus lab workers protected ‘for their safety’ | by Geoff Chambers: Chief Political Correspondent | Published: 2022 December 01 | Publisher: THE AUSTRALIAN | Pages: 3 | Filesize: 306 KB | EDITORIAL ORIGINAL SOURCE URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/virus-lab-workers-protected-for-their-safety/news-story/029f0942b245bb383a6dd3c55ffcb4fc and Download PDF Copy of the Editorial: https://t.me/FOURCMVAULT/350 | File Name: theaustralian.com.au-Virus lab workers protected for their safety.pdf
Virus lab workers protected ‘for their safety’ [EDITORIAL] by Geoff Chambers: Chief Political Correspondent 1 December 2022 Published by: THE AUSTRALIAN Pages: 3 | Filesize: 306 KB Download PDF Copy: https://t.me/FOURCMVAULT/350 and HTML Original Source: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/virus-lab-workers-protected-for-their-safety/news-story/029f0942b245bb383a6dd3c55ffcb4fc
SEE URL: Hansard item no. 1 | EDITORIAL: Gain of function research in Australia Why the secrecy | SEE URL: https://gerardrennick.com.au/gain-of-function-research-in-australia-why-the-secrecy/))
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