HAVE YOUR SAY: sign up for a REAL covid reckoning before Friday

We want the truth to see the light of day

Want a real inquiry into the covid disaster?

Sign up, sign up here - you’ve got until Thursday night to put your name on something that matters.

Lawyers Julian Gillespie, Peter Fam, and Katie Ashby-Koppens have worked for months with leading doctors and scientists to put together a 107-page submission to set the terms of reference for the proposed covid royal commission, and we can sign on to support it.

The Senate opened an inquiry in October into what terms should govern a future royal commission.

This is the best chance for our grievances to be heard - but only if the rules are fair.

So we need a say in setting the terms of reference. Otherwise it will be just another cover-up.

That’s what is at stake right now.

There’s no point all of us sending individual submissions when we don’t have the legal expertise or time.

The Australian Medical Professionals’ Society (AMPS) is hosting the submission on its website, Australians for Science and Freedom (ASF) helped and 20 different professional groups have stepped up to back this comprehensive set of terms.

The trio of lawyers led by barrister Julian Gillespie sacrificed a lot of time to create these terms of reference to give the royal commission clear instructions about what needs to be examined and investigated.

It’s detailed and thorough.

L-R: Dr Melissa McCann, Julian Gillespie and Peter Fam, ASF conference, Sydney, 19 November 2023. Pic: Bevege

The proposed terms of reference would stop the government turning it into a whitewash.

If you want a fair deal, sign on to the submission now, so we can be heard.

“We only have a few days to go,” said Mr Gillespie.

“It is critical we have thousands of co-signatories so we get the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Reference Committee looking at what Australians want and need - not a sham Royal Commission.”

Submissions to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee close Friday 12 January - so you need to sign on by Thursday night to help the authors submit.

The Senate committee will report to Parliament on 31 March.

It’s as easy as signing an online petition - only this actually counts for something unlike most online petitions.

For more on the proposed terms of reference see the AMPS website here, or Julian Gillespie’s excellent Substack Jules on the Beach.

Some of the organisations supporting the submission - sign on here

CORRECTION: 8 January 2024 - This excellent 107-page submission was put together by the three lawyers acting independently, who came together to create these terms of reference. AMPS is helping get the word out but the lawyers are not “AMPS lawyers” as I wrongly wrote. My mistake - I apologise. Also, ASF have helped, along with others. Please just sign it today, it really is worthwhile.