It’s been a bad week for Covid vaccine advocates. On Monday, the Australian Senate voted by the narrowest of margins (31 to 30) that excess mortality should be investigated. This was a huge win for Victorian Senator Ralph Babet of the United Australia Party and for all Australians. After voting three times against Senator Babet’s motion on Monday, the Senate finally acknowledged that: ‘(a) the concerning number of excess deaths observed in Australia in 2021 and 2022 has continued into 2023 as evidenced by all-cause provisional mortality data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics; and (b) there is a need for further inquiry as to the reasons for these excess deaths.’

To get the motion passed, Babet secured the support of every cross-bencher, no mean feat. Only Labor and the Greens seem determined to protect the Covid vaccine manufacturers from the scrutiny that will come when Australia’s shocking excess mortality is officially investigated.

So far, Australia’s dramatic increase in excess deaths, which closely followed the rollout of the Covid vaccines and boosters, has only been studied by doctors and scientists working with the independent Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS) or independent investigators such as Dr Wilson Sy who has studied excess mortality in Australia and the UK.

The latest ABS provisional mortality data however also tells the story. Published on Tuesday, it showed that excess deaths in November were 12 per cent higher than the baseline average.

This is very disturbing news because after a pandemic is over – and recall the WHO said the pandemic ended in the middle of 2022 – deaths should be lower than normal because of a well-known phenomenon called a pull-forward effect which simply means that because some people died earlier than expected due to the pandemic there should be fewer deaths once the pandemic is over.

Not only is this not the case, but deaths that studies have linked to the Covid vaccines are skyrocketing. For example, deaths due to dementia in November 2023 were 18.5 per cent above baseline and 6 per cent above the number in 2022. While November may have been a bad month, so far, data available for 2023 shows deaths due to dementia were 12 per cent above baseline and only 3 per cent below the number of dementia deaths recorded in the horror year of 2022 in which there were 190,775 deaths, more than 15 per cent above the baseline average.

In 2023 deaths due to ischaemic (ie chronic) heart disease were 10 per cent below the baseline average in November 2023 but deaths due to other cardiac conditions were 13 per cent above the baseline average in November 2023 and only 2 per cent below these deaths in 2022.

A key cause of death in the ‘other cardiac conditions’ category is myocarditis, an acknowledged adverse effect caused by mRNA Covid vaccines. Myocarditis is heart inflammation that can affect anyone, at any age, and people do not necessarily experience symptoms which are vague and include fatigue, shortness of breath, and chest pain. But even when people feel fine myocarditis can cause death from heart failure, heart attack, stroke, arrhythmia or sudden cardiac arrest.

Deaths due to diabetes are 20 per cent higher in November 2023, 15 per cent above the baseline for 2023. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition where the immune system attacks the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. The Covid vaccines were not tested on people with autoimmune conditions precisely because they might trigger or exacerbate these conditions. There was a big increase in juvenile diabetes recorded in 2020 and an even bigger increase in 2021 suggesting a possible link to the spike protein in the virus and even more so in the vaccine-generated spike.

As for cancer, the ABS doesn’t give any analysis, but cancer, the single largest cause of death in Australia is, on the crude numbers, up 7 per cent compared with 2022. Dr Angus Dalgleish is one of several leading oncologists who fear a link between Covid vaccines and an increase in cancer in those in remission. There is also evidence of an increase in new aggressive cancers dubbed turbo cancers.

All this disturbing evidence has led to thousands of doctors demanding the Covid vaccines be withdrawn until they are fully investigated. An avalanche of studies point to a link. While this is well-known to readers of these pages, during a US select subcommittee meeting on the coronavirus pandemic held on February 16 Chairman Brad Wenstrup admitted that Vaccine Adverse Events Reports (VAERS) for the Covid-19 vaccines dwarfed those for all other vaccines combined since 1990. The representative of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr Peter Marks, then admitted that the government had to dramatically increase staff to manage the flood of reports of side effects, a fact first revealed by Dr Naomi Wolf and her team’s study of the 55,000 pages of Pfizer Covid vaccine trial data released under FOI.

But the biggest development this week was the announcement on Tuesday by Queensland’s Supreme Court that Covid vaccine mandates for the state’s police and ambulance officers were unlawful.

In his judgment, Justice Glenn Martin wrote that Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll’s December 2021 order was ‘unlawful’ under the Human Rights Act as was the vaccination requirement of Queensland Health Director-General John Wakefield.

This judgment was a long time coming and appeared to slow to a halt for several years. The Queensland Police Commissioner announced her resignation a week ago and is stepping down on Friday 1 March but Wakefield announced his resignation and departed almost two years ago in early March 2022. Former Queensland Health Minister and serving Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath announced her retirement four days ago although she will serve until the state election scheduled for October. Her close ally, former premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, announced her retirement last December. In other states, all of the Covid premiers have departed. Yet the desire to protect the premiers (mostly Labor – only Tasmania and NSW had Coalition governments) appears to persist at the federal government. No doubt the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) which required doctors to be vaccinated and muzzled them from criticising government policy is not keen for any scrutiny either.

On 29 November 2023, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivered a ‘National Apology to Australians impacted by the Thalidomide Tragedy’ which occurred in the late 1950s and the 1960s. On 8 February, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan choked back tears apologising to Victorians abused in state care between 1928 and 1990.

Those are the sort of apologies that Labor loves, dubbed an Apollygy by the cool cats at the Catallaxy Files blog.

An Apollygy is an ‘Apology made by a hopeless PM about something they had no involvement in to seem more virtuous than the previous PM’. On that basis, we will be waiting a while yet for an apollygy for the Covid vaccines.