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Im pro-individual freedoms, Im anti-mandates, he says.
I havent read the Biosecurity Act in full honesty, Im not across it but individual freedoms is [sic] one of my three core values.
A male audience member asks him: Enough that you would cross the floor if you saw our individual freedoms or your communitys individual freedoms, lets say Bennelong, being breached?
Yep, Kennedy responds.
The candidate quotes bestselling author and culture warrior Jordan Peterson and says, individual responsibility is the flipside of individual freedom.
A female member of the group responds that, the [vaccine] mandates are no jab, no job. Theyre stopping us from taking personal responsibility.
Simon is saying he supports us in that respect arent you? says a male audience member.
You were against the fact that many of us lost our job.
Later, another member of the group who identifies herself as a nurse, calls NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard the number one bully and harasser for his insistence on vaccine mandates for health workers.
She is met with light applause.
She says the NSW Health department continues to put out garbage that is not science.
Speaking about the COVID-19 vaccinations, Kennedy appears to sympathise with the anxieties some people have about vaccination.
The fear I absolutely agree with, he says.
People losing their jobs, I have an enormous amount of empathy for that they were being forced, they had to choose this course of action and put these chemicals in my body.
He empathises with a teacher who lost her job for refusing to disclose her vaccination status and says, thats very unfair.
Later, responding to questions from the group about censored science and Ivermectin, a drug often wrongly touted as a treatment by coronavirus by conspiracy groups, Kennedy says he would be happy to read anything.
About an hour into the meeting, another man asks Kennedy: If a bill came before parliament that would mandate jabs the coronavirus jabs would you support it or oppose it?
I wouldnt support it, Kennedy responds.
Regardless of what any political party says, you would not support it? the man inquires.
No, Kennedy says.
The same man asks him if he supports or opposes cancel culture and people being shut down, censored.
I would oppose that, Kennedy says. Thats core to the individual freedoms.
Kennedy told the Herald and The Age: Blanket mandates are a complex and emotive issue, and I think its important that we have respectful conversations even with people that have different views than your own - and help to stop the spread of disinformation.
A Stand in the Park has supported breaching health orders and opposes vaccine mandates.
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It spreads COVID-19 misinformation on its social media channels and at meetings. Its social media content includes comparisons between the Holocaust, slavery and the segregation of vaccination mandates.
The groups founder Brady Gunn, a resident of Port Macquarie, has been repeatedly convicted for breaches of public health orders in NSW.
During the lockdowns the group met each week at locations across Australia in defiance of bans on group gatherings and joined the so-called Freedom Rallies.
@JacquelineMaley
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Lib candidate for Bennelong tells anti-mandate group he will cross floor to protect freedom - Sydney Morning Herald