Take Note: Covid-19

Australia has one of the lowest COVID death rates in the world, and we’ve actually got one of the lowest fatality rates in the world. It’s worth noting that this year we’ve had fewer than 100 COVID deaths out of over 20,000 cases. That is a case fatality rate of 0.04 per cent, or fewer than four people out of every 1,000 cases. Compare that with the number of deaths in 2019, when Australia had 170,000 deaths out of 25 million people. That was a death rate of seven people out of 1,000.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

I rise to speak to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and their so-called reporting of the temperature change in Australia since 1910, saying that the temperature has risen by 1.44 degrees…