HANSON HITS ANTI-MANDATE RALLY
THOUSANDS of “freedom” protestors joined One Nation leader Pauline Hanson at a Gold Coast park to protest vaccination mandates.
Protestors were opposing vaccine mandates and vaccine passports, coming into effect on December 17 that will render the unvaccinated unable to visit many public spaces or events.
Laws will also mean they are at-risk of losing their jobs – a clear point of contention during Saturday’s protests.
Both young and old at
Broadbeach’s Kurrawa Park, bearing placards with messages opposing controversial mandates, say they won’t “bow” to pressure by the State to get jabbed.
Chants of “freedom” echoed throughout the crowd as speakers took to the stage, including senators Malcolm Roberts and Pauline Hanson of One Nation.
Ms Hanson received a rapturous applause by crowds as she took to the stage, at one point interrupted by attendees chanting her name. She doubled down on criticism of the State Government over its stance on vaccine mandates and passports.
“We want our freedom, we want our choice, it’s our choice,” she told attendees, many of whom were bearing Australian flags and One Nation merchandise.
Ms Hanson said she would not support any State legislation put forward taking away people’s rights.
“If you don’t have One Nation on the floor of parliament, you’ve got no hope. I’ve never seen such a bunch of wimps in my life. Give us our freedoms back.”
Protestors and other guest speakers - police officers and healthcare workers included labelled next month’s mandate as an “apartheid.”
One doctor, who says he will soon lose his job due to the mandates, questioned the effectiveness of the mandates: “Things don’t add up and they have never added up,” he said.
Another man said: “There are two things about to end my career; the mandate because I choose not be vaccinated. I’ve been deemed by the state as too dangerous to see my clients.”