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NEWS OF MORE BULLYING AND COERCIVE CONTROL FROM QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT AGAINST SUSPENDED TEACHERS

Queensland teachers have been dealt another blow by the Queensland Education Minister, Grace Grace.

At 5pm, teachers suspended without pay since January, received emails from the Education Department advising them that their suspensions had been extended to 4 September 2022.

This was crushing news after months of isolation and financial hardship, with many forced to run through their life savings just to survive.

There have been widespread reports of teachers forced to sell their homes when funds finally ran out.

Just last week, a teacher friend in Brisbane was given his marching orders for refusing to get the Booster shot – so expect the numbers of suspensions to grow over the next few months!

Ironically, this latest missive was sent the same week that Brisbane’s Supreme Court received a submission from the Queensland’s Human Rights Commission, stating that the Qld Government’s mandates are unlawful.

The submission was made in relation to the case currently before the Court, involving suspended Police officers.

The QHRC said that the mandate had been made outside the Chief Health Officer’s powers under the Queensland Public Health Act.

The mandate also failed to comply with Section 58(1) of the Queensland Human Rights Act 1999, the Commission said, which makes it unlawful for a public entity to act or make a decision that is incompatible with a human right.

At the very least, it had limited freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief, as well as the right to property and privacy.

There are nine other groups of workers who have cases challenging the mandates in the Supreme Court this year.

I wish them all the best.

At this point it is getting harder and harder to understand why the Government is continuing to impose these mandates on teachers and other workers in Queensland.

Where exactly is the Government getting its advice from? Or does the ongoing punishment of non-complying workers have more to do with spite than science?

I certainly hope not.

Many innocent and good-hearted people have had their lives ripped to pieces by all this.

Not to mention the thousands of children and young people whose education has suffered.

The Minister should release the health advice justifying this latest decision, along with the Cost-Benefit Analysis it carried out as required under the Government’s own Best Practice guidelines.

If she is unable to provide the public with either, then she needs to END THESE CRUEL MANDATES immediately.

THOSE WHO WERE FORCED, SPEAK OUT ….

THE WRITTEN TESTIMONIES FROM TEACHERS WHO WERE ‘FORCED’, SHOULD DISQUALIFY ANY MEMBER OF THE QLD GOVERNMENT FROM EVER UTTERING THE WORDS ‘COERCIVE CONTROL’ AGAIN!!

Here are a few more excerpts, this time I have taken them from the accounts written by Queensland teachers who were forced into receiving the injections against their will.

As you can see, many of them have been left psychologically traumatised as a result.

In some ways their suffering has been even worse than those who were purged for non-compliance.

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“It was just gut-wrenching when I realised, I had no choice but to get the jab or be sacked after 22 years of teaching. I don’t think I’ll EVER get over it”.

“My principal rang daily saying “just get the jab, just get the jab”. Finally, I felt I had no option. I CRIED THE WHOLE WAY TO MY JAB APPOINTMENT, I CRIED WHEN I WALKED IN, I CRIED WHEN THEY JABBED ME AND I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTERWARDS.”

“The stress of being forced, when I was so strongly opposed, …and then contracting Covid TWICE, despite being double vaccinated, has been almost too much to bear. My quality of life has been destroyed…”

“I was forced to get vaccinated to keep my job and pay the mortgage. It has impacted my well-being in so many ways…I feel detached from my work now and alienated from my co-workers”.

“I have witnessed distressed colleagues, who have official medical exemptions, being subjected to the most inhumane treatment, just so they are allowed to keep working. They are completely segregated from the other teachers and forced to eat lunch alone.”

“I have not lost my job because I complied/was coerced, but dear friends and colleagues from my school have – they were shamed, lectured, belittled told not to believe “everything they read on the internet”, or “just go get it!”. Or “I could hold you down and give it to you myself”. Now that they are gone, it’s like radio silence! LIKE TEACHERS WHO HAVE TAUGHT AT OUR SCHOOL FOR OVER 10-30 YEARS JUST NEVER EXISTED, THEY ARE NOT SPOKEN ABOUT.”

“Our staff holes have been plugged with fresh graduates, our HOD and deputies are all acting in their roles … The whole culture of the place is altered and it’s uncomfortable working there. I live in fear of the booster being mandated because I will not be coerced again, and I don’t want to lose my 20-year career that I love with all my heart.”

“I feel like I have betrayed my principles for money… my life feels like it’s in tatters. I feel disgust and shame (with myself) over this.”

“In the end I was coerced like so many others. The complete loss of my own free choice still weighs heavily on me. I am not sure I will input the 110% I did in the past”.

“I feel totally powerless in my own country and my own home. I feel powerless to protect myself and my family …I feel oppressed living in what I once thought was a free country. I was forced to do this to keep a roof over my family’s head, put food on the table, and so that my children will NEVER have to go through this themselves and potentially have their own health affected.”

“Being coerced into doing something you don’t want to do is terrifying and humiliating. After studying for four years and finally landing a contract job, I was forced to choose between my career and my morals/beliefs. It has taken a huge toll on my mental health.”

“I was harassed daily and made to feel like a criminal by my principal/colleagues until I gave in. I have lost ALL faith in the government and education profession”.

“I hope these people rot in hell for what they have done to me”.

“Doing it went against everything I believe in. I am so upset I was forced like that”.

“They may as well have held me down and done it – IT FELT NO DIFFERENT”.

Teachers dealt another blow!