Craig Kelly Must Be ‘Cancelled’ for Revealing Facts About Alternative COVID-19 Treatment

Craig Kelly Must Be ‘Cancelled’ for Revealing Facts About Alternative COVID-19 Treatment
Member for Hughes Craig Kelly looks on during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 2, 2021. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)
Augusto Zimmermann
2/15/2021
Updated:
2/15/2021
Commentary

The corridor clash between Liberal Member of Parliament Craig Kelly and Labor frontbencher Tania Plibersek has revealed an important aspect of Australian politics.

Plibersek, a member of Labor’s Far Left faction, attempted to “cancel” Kelly for his “endorsement” of a drug that has apparently provided an effective treatment against COVID-19.

First of all, it is patently clear that Kelly was not “endorsing” anything.

Member for Hughes Craig Kelly and Member for Sydney Tanya Plibersek argue in the Media Gallery at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 3, 2021. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)
Member for Hughes Craig Kelly and Member for Sydney Tanya Plibersek argue in the Media Gallery at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 3, 2021. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

He simply published on his Facebook page a number of peer-reviewed papers written by leading medical academics and experts supporting such treatment.

His comment on ivermectin, for example, was based on the research of immunologist Prof. Robert Clancy from Newcastle University.

In an interview with 6PR last Wednesday, Clancy stated that the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin was “clearly effective.” As a leading expert in the field, he was explaining the facts and results as he carefully interpreted them.

As can be seen, this is not just Kelly’s opinion.

The combined use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin has worked in other countries and research confirms they certainly work.

Member for Hughes Craig Kelly looks on during the opening of House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 3, 2021. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)
Member for Hughes Craig Kelly looks on during the opening of House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 3, 2021. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

For example, the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health (U.S.) have both endorsed the treatment combo, with India planning to treat the population with the two drugs plus zinc supplements.

But I guess it might be too much for our political establishment to handle. The prime minister wants 95 percent of the population taking the vaccine, although those aged under 60 have exhibited a small chance of dying from the virus.

He wants to make vaccination as mandatory as possible.

“I expect that it would be as mandatory as you can possibly make it,” Morrison stated in August last year.

His comments followed the signing of Australia’s first vaccine deal with drug maker AstraZeneca.

Such a vaccine has been rushed through trials and has never been successfully produced for a coronavirus: it might do more harm than good.

Rather than defending the right of a fellow parliamentarian, indeed a member of his own governing party, to freely express his opinion. The prime minister reportedly reprimanded Kelly for supporting an alternative treatment.

“The views expressed by the member for Hughes do not align with my views, or the views of the advice that has been provided to me by the chief medical office,” Morrison told Parliament last Wednesday.

The prime minister should have supported Kelly’s right to express his opinion.

The Radical Left, including Plibersek, want Kelly “cancelled” in the usual way when someone disagrees with them.

However, a full fact-check would testify that everything he says about hydroxychloroquine is actually true. The drug has been successfully used to treat COVID-19 in India, the Czech Republic, and some states in the United States.

The very government that bans therapeutics like hydroxychloroquine and zinc, is the same that miserably failed to protect nursing homes where the highest incidence of COVID deaths occurred.

I also suspect the prime minister and Plibersek do not even understand the difference between a vaccine and a treatment.

To add insult to injury, Kelly has been slapped with the label “anti-vaxxer” when all he has done is to expose the truth about successful drug treatments.

The evidence is overwhelming.

The false mantra that governments must follow the “advice” of cherry-picked “health experts” must be challenged, and politicians to have a democratic mandate to question the advice.

Nobody must be “cancelled” for daring to challenge the status quo, and Kelly should still be able to exercise his fundamental right to free speech.

Dr. Augusto Zimmermann PhD, LLM cum laude, LLB (Hons.) is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth, and Professor of Law (Adjunct) at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, Australia. He is also President of the Western Australian Legal Theory Association, Editor-in-Chief of the Western Australian Jurist law journal, and a former Law Reform Commissioner in Western Australia.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Augusto Zimmermann, PhD, LLD, is a professor and head of law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth. He is also president of the Western Australian Legal Theory Association and served as a commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia from 2012 to 2017. Mr. Zimmermann has authored numerous books, including “Western Legal Theory: History, Concepts and Perspectives" and “Foundations of the Australian Legal System: History, Theory, and Practice.”
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