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OPEN LETTER TO AUSTRALIA’S MEDIA LEADERS - THE ALLISON INQUIRY CANNOT BE IGNORED. This letter was emailed to 303 media outlet chiefs including TV, radio and print media yesterday. ianbrighthope.substack.com/p… Dear Members, On your behalf, the Aligned Council of Australia has sent the open letter below to 303 Australian media outlets, including our national broadcaster, the ABC, and newsrooms across radio, television and print. We have put a direct question to their editors, chief executives and news directors. Will you assign journalists to investigate the testimony heard at Canada’s Allison Inquiry and give Australians who report vaccine injuries the opportunity to be heard here at home? We want you to know why we signed this letter and what we intend to do next. Sending it was the first step. An acknowledgement from a newsroom will tell us the letter arrived. What we want to see is a reporter pick up the telephone, listen to a family, examine the records with their permission and put the difficult questions to the people who made the decisions. At the Allison Inquiry, witnesses described severe illness and disability after COVID-19 vaccination. Others spoke about losing someone they loved. The hearings left questions of causation and legal responsibility unresolved. That is precisely where the work of an investigative journalist begins. What do the records establish? What remains uncertain? When a family reported a suspected injury or death, who investigated it, what did they examine, and did anyone sit down with that family and explain the findings? Australians are entitled to know how their own institutions would answer those questions. We have singled out the ABC because Australians fund it and have every right to expect it to scrutinise those who govern them. During the rollout, Australians could turn on a radio or television and hear what health authorities expected them to do. A worker told that their livelihood depended on vaccination deserves to hear those same authorities answer questions today. What risks and uncertainties were explained before that worker consented? If they subsequently reported a serious adverse event, how was it assessed? If they sought treatment or compensation, what happened to them? We also expect newsrooms to examine their own role. That means asking how government advertising was handled, what safeguards protected editorial independence, and how editors decided which medical and scientific voices their audiences would hear. A newsroom willing to ask those questions of itself has every standing to ask them of a regulator, a minister or a pharmaceutical company. Our demand is an independent Australian Royal Commission with the power to compel documents and hear evidence under oath. Australians should be able to see what advice decision-makers received, what risks they considered, why they imposed mandates and how they responded as evidence accumulated. Where injury is established, those affected deserve recognition, treatment and fair compensation. Where the evidence establishes misconduct, those responsible must answer for it through due process. Our undertaking to you is straightforward. We will follow up with the outlets we have contacted. Where an editor commissions an investigation, we will welcome it and judge the reporting on its merits. Where an outlet declines, we will ask why. Where there is silence, we will ask again. We will keep pressing until Australians who have carried these questions for years receive a fair hearing, and until an independent Royal Commission can put those questions to the people with the authority and the records to answer them. Please read the letter above and share it with your local newspaper, radio presenter or television newsroom. Ask one question in your own words: Will your newsroom investigate what happened to people in our community who reported a serious injury or death of a loved one after vaccination, and will you tell your audience what you find? With determination, Professor Ian Brighthope and Katie Ashby-Koppens LLB On behalf of the Aligned Council of Australia

The grassroots parents’ movement that championed phone bans and the under-16 social media ban, has extraordinarily condemned Labor’s Digital Duty of Care, warning the laws risk weaponising child protection to silence political dissent. news24.com.au/politics/austr…