United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet introduced a bill to the Senate today which, if passed, will mark the end of carte blanche vaccine indemnity schemes for big pharmaceutical corporations in Australia.
Senator Babet says that the bill will prevent the Australian Government from granting indemnity to vaccine manufacturers, which will in turn, “limit financial and legal risk to the Commonwealth and aid in the restoration of trust in medicine.”
This announcement comes just days after it was reported that WorkCover claims for Victorian essential services workers injured by the Covid jabs (many of whom were mandated) have topped $4.37 million.
Over three thousand Australians have sought compensation from the federal Covid vaccine injury scheme, although fewer than five per cent have been paid out.
A vaccine injury class action filed in the Federal Court earlier this year with over 500 members could see the amount paid out to the injured soar to hundreds of millions of dollars. Taxpayers will foot the bill for all of these claims.
Senator Babet points out that the Federal Budget acknowledges the open-ended cost of vaccine harms.
