GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG ABOUT TO BE turned upon an unsuspecting public


Parliament is about to make laws that gag freedom of speech. Even China and Russia don’t have laws like this. If the HCCC has its way, any


person questioning the commonly held medical consensus or giving advice could be gagged and have legal proceedings taken against them. by Michael Bending


‘All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing’ –Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British writer and politician


THE HEALTH CARE COMPLAINTS COMMISSION (HCCC) was originally set up to protect the public from dangerous medical practices. They were to be an independent overseer that could adjudicate whenever there was a question of someone being harmed by medical treatments – an all-too-common event in Australia. According to their website, they describe themselves as being: “an independent body to deal with complaints about health service providers in NSW”. Since they were established, however,


the HCCC seems to have been perverted into a caricature of its original purpose. Instead of protecting the public from dangerous medical practices, it apparently wants to protect mainstream medical establishment and drug companies from the public. Interestingly enough the HCCC don’t


seem to be too concerned that Western drug-based medicine makes claims for treatments and therapies with little or no evidence. And let’s not mention the falsified studies and ghost written articles. The British Medical Journal’s website “Clinical Evidence” reports (see link on the


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web version of this article) that, of the 3000 treatments they have surveyed, only 11% of medical treatments are rated as beneficial, and 23% likely to be beneficial (they don’t know for sure), while 67% are of unknown or of unlikely effectiveness or harmful. Yet the HCCC has decided it’s the


mums and dads and the general public that should be regulated and debate shut down, and not the medical establishment or drug companies... The HCCC refused to investigate


Graeme Reeves, the Butcher of Bega, despite complaints from more than 500 women he had sexually abused and mutilated. They also refused to investigate the hospital responsible for the death of Don Mackay, a quadriplegic whose horrific death was caused by gross negligence by that facility. Yet they spent an entire year and, we


conservatively estimate, several million dollars, illegally ‘investigating’ the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN).


THE AVN VS THE HCCC – DAVID VS GOLIATH The AVN is a group of parents and other members of the public who question the science used to market and promote the effectiveness and safety of vaccination as well as champion informed consent. They also use scientific studies and data to support their claims.


In 2010 the HCCC took aim at the


AVN, and demanded they put a disclaimer on their website stating that their information was not to be used as medical advice (a disclaimer the AVN had always had on their web page) and that their information was solely anti- vaccine – a statement which was not true and did not represent the AVN’s position. The AVN took action against this attempt to silence them and brought the case against them to the Supreme Court of NSW. The AVN prevailed. The AVN were able to prove that the HCCC’s actions were illegal. They proved that the HCCC had also acted arrogantly and at great cost to the public purse in their relentless pursuit of this small, community-based group. A great deal of intelligent legal advice


had clearly demonstrated that the HCCC were acting outside of their jurisdiction in either investigating or citing the AVN. The fact that the HCCC continued to pursue this course of action is indicative of the way in which they have operated for at least the past decade. The law does not seem to be any obstacle to the HCCC. It was a huge embarrassment for


those wanting the AVN silenced to lose this case. A well-funded government behemoth going against a tiny parent- run support group and losing. Such an uneven battle might be expected to go the


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