Caution With Vaccine Roll Out 💉  Inland Rail Is Off Track 🚉 Fuel Security Crisis ⛽

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SENATOR HANSON CALLS FOR CAUTION AHEAD OF VACCINE ROLL OUT
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One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson has called for caution following the provisional approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in Australia and reiterated her total opposition to a mandatory vaccination scheme.

“I call on the Prime Minister to ensure there is no consideration given to the mandating of the COVID vaccine – especially at this early stage in the approvals process,” Senator Hanson said

“I’ve said all along that vaccination should be a matter of personal choice and that remains my position.”

Senator Hanson also highlighted the need for a responsible and measured approach to dealing with any vaccination program.

“Australia has an incredibly low caseload of COVID infections by any standard and that should mean we have the breathing space to properly evaluate the dangers and effectiveness of any vaccine without rushing to judgement.”

“By its own admission the TGA has a long way to go before we can all be satisfied the vaccine is safe for the overwhelming majority of Australians to use.

“Today’s provisional approval is on the basis of preliminary clinical data only and the TGA will now monitor the vaccine’s safety as it is rolled out. As Professor Skerrit said today the TGA’s job is by no means done.” Senator Hanson added.

INLAND RAIL IS OFF TRACK

Statement from Senator Malcolm Roberts

Yesterday I attended a hearing into the Inland Rail project. The massively expensive project will see up to 40 heavy freight trains a day travel through southern Queensland to Acacia Ridge. (20 into Brisbane and 20 out)

Inland Rail uses passenger lines through south west Brisbane that local residents were promised would never be upgraded to heavy freight. That promise, by Labor Premier Beattie has now been broken by Premier Palaszczuk.

It is telling that neither Premier Palaszczuk nor any of her administration had the courage to front the inquiry to respond to the criticism of the route her Government is promoting.

The Mayor of Logan City Darren Power testified that within 20 years more than 50,000 residents would live with 1km of the train line, putting up with noise and vibration from 1.8km long heavy freight trains 24 hours a day.

The current plan is to terminate the line at Acacia Ridge, and not upgrade the rail link to Brisbane Port until 2040. This stupid idea will put hundreds of additional A double heavy freight trucks and related traffic onto local roads that can’t handle the traffic they have now.

Inland Rail’s preferred alignment also goes across the Condamine floodplain near Millmerran. Building a 2m railway embankment across a major floodplain is a really bad idea.

The small culverts being built into the embankment will quickly block during heavy rain and flood out thousands of local residents and businesses.

The much better route through Warwick, along mostly existing freight rail lines was not seriously considered by the ARTC, this is a poor decision.

The budget for Inland Rail now stands at $20 billion and will go much higher. At this cost Inland Rail will never pay for itself.

Our investigations into this and listening are going to continue. The more I hear, the more concerned I am about this project.

FUEL SECURITY CRISIS LOOMS AS OIL REFINERIES COLLAPSE ONE BY ONE
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Statement from One Nation MP for Mirani Stephen Andrew

Australia’s largest oil refinery, BPs Kwinana Refinery in Western Australia, said last month it was closing and would ‘transition’ to an ‘import facility’ by mid 2021.

The shutdown wipes out more than one-fifth of our fuel-making capabilities and leaves 600 workers without a job.

The country will then have just three remaining fuel refineries left, despite having seven only a decade ago.

The three that are left are said to be “bleeding multimillion-dollar losses”.

A 2014 NRMA Report has predicted that by 2030 all of Australia’s oil refineries will be closed.

What a change from twenty years ago, when Australia had ten refineries, which were easily able to meet ALL the country’s domestic fuel demands.

Today, 90% of our fuel and 80% of our crude are imported from Asia.

In response to the shutdown of Kwinana, the Federal Minister for Energy, Angus Taylor, said there was nothing to be concerned about and that it would have no “impact on Australian fuel supplies”.

Who does he think he’s kidding? Certainly not farmers, or the military I imagine.

There is in fact plenty to be concerned about.

Not least because a large amount of our oil imports come from China, a country that the Government has a fast deteriorating relationship with.

Then there is the falling number of oil-exporting nations with less than 19 countries able to still export 500,000 barrels a day.

None of them are near Australia, and most are in unstable regions or, like China, are on bad terms with our Government (Russia, Iran).

Since Covid, many global carriers say they are seriously weighing up whether it is worth including Australia on their routes given its distance from supply lanes. They are also pretty cranky at the way we treated their ships and crews in 2020, which some international bodies likened to ‘cruel and inhumane’ torture at one point and a global humanitarian crisis at another.

How would the Military cope if there was another world lockdown, when 100 per cent of our fuel needs relied on imports?

And what would the Government do should an unfriendly power decide to blockade our fuel supplies?

Would the Minister be concerned then I wonder?
That is this weeks recap from One Nation.

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