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Legal concerns about the emergency powers exercised under COVID-19

By Andrea Tokaji - posted Wednesday, 11 August 2021


As State-based emergency powers in each State and Territory have been extended without proper evidence, without due process or transparency in Parliament as well as a lack of accountability before its constituents, state governments and their premiers, and chief ministers in ACT and NT, do not have the authority to act under such powers legally, especially in consideration of section 107 of the Australian Constitution.

We must not allow our fears of COVID to totally undermine our inalienable God-given freedoms and rights, toviolate the principles of rule of law, and to abolish parliamentary due process and other legal principles that ensures the separation of powers, and a balance of those same powers.

My elected representative is there to provide the scientific, medical and legal evidence that the Emergency Powers requires from which they are operating currently, to show legitimacy and legality through proper process as per section 52 of the Emergency Management Act 2005 (WA) .

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I, for one, would like to see this medical, scientific and legal evidence clearly laid out to us as a matter of urgency and in the national interest of our economy, sovereignty and our future as a nation.

On a side note, understanding how Communism operates form a first-hand experience, I think Australia also needs to be vigilant of the true stealth enemy that seeks to divide Australians, to destroy our economy and instil fear into its citizens.

We know for a fact that the World Health Organisation (WHO) and China have acted deceitfully thus far. WHO has not accurately represented the threat of COVID in a timely manner, and they have been accused of acting as China's accomplicein initially suppressing information about the coronavirus. Beijing hid information about the virus's origins, infectiousness, spread, and deadliness for more than a month when it was first released in December 2019.

Parliaments here in Australia have withheld crucial information from their people and engaged in the equivalent therefore of espionage and treason, while the CCP seeks to infiltrate our economy, freedoms and way of life. As a refugee child from a Communist country - I cannot stand idly by and allow this to occur to my country - which I love so dearly.

Make no mistake: Australia is in the middle of a Biochemical Warfare with China, and we have fallen asleep at the wheel.

It is up to us to protect and preserve our God-given inalienable freedoms and rights - will you stand with me on the right side of history, and against tyranny and oppression?

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Andrea Tokaji is a lecturer in Business and Law at Sheridan, Perth, and is a trained international human rights lawyer.

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