12. If there is a state of emergency why are large sporting events such as the cricket allowed to take with large crowds in attendance? 13. On what grounds did the health minister again rollover the state of emergency given sporting events are allowed to take place and state governments are continually overestimating the true impact of Covid? 14. How much longer with the state of emergency go for? 15. What is the criteria around which the health minister determines a state of emergency is necessary?
Question Number: 183 PDR Number: SQ22-000095 Date Submitted: 22/02/2022 Department or Body: Department of Health 12. The size and conditions on sporting event operators held in Australian jurisdictions is a matter for those jurisdictions. 13. The human biosecurity emergency period was extended from 17 February 2022 to 17 April 2022 based on advice from the […]
1. In 1996, when the Bureau converted to custom-made electronic probes for temperature recording, rather than averaging temperatures over one to five minutes as is standard practice around the world from such equipment, did the Bureau start recording one second extrema resulting in a non-standard method of measuring (spot readings) from non-standard equipment (custom-built probes) making it impossible to establish the equivalence of recent temperatures with historical data? 2. How did the Bureau take into account the change in thermometers from mercury/alcohol to platinum resistance thermometers when homogenising data? 3. Could the Bureau provide specifications for the platinum resistance thermometers? 4. Why did the Bureau manipulate thermometers at Goulburn and Thredbo by putting a limit on how low the temperature can go? 5. Could the Bureau explain why putting a downside limit on temperature recordings isn’t fraudulent? 6. Why should the Bureau be believed when it says there were the only two weather stations (Goulburn and Thredbo) out of 700 stations where downside limits were placed on thermometers? 7. Given these two stations were detected by external sources shouldn’t the entire network by audited by an external auditor on a regular basis to ensure that there has been no further tampering of thermometers by the Bureau? 8. In 2011, the new Australian Climate Observation Reference Network – Surface Air Temperatures (ACORN-SAT) system for calculating the national average temperature removed 57 stations from its calculations, replacing them with 36 on-average hotter stations. Can the bureau confirm this had the effect of increasing the homogenised Australian average temperature by 0.42 degree Celsius, independently of any actual change in the weather?
Question Number: 50PDR Number: SQ22-000099Date Submitted: 22/02/2022Department or Body: Agriculture Water and Environment 1. The Bureau of Meteorology’s (The Bureau) automatic weather stations (AWS) record 1-minute air temperature data in accord with World Meteorological Organization recommendations. These 1-minute values are recorded as the temperature observed in the last second of each minute, not an extrema […]
1. How can Fair Work Australia morally justify the mandating of vaccines by employers which goes against the explicit statement in the immunisation handbook that people cannot be coerced into an taking a vaccine? 2. How can Fair Work Australia morally justify the dismissal of employees unable to get a second inoculation because they were injured by the first inoculation and received a medical exemption? 3. How can Fair Work Australia morally justify the dismissal of employees who because of prior anaphylactic reactions don’t want to take the vaccine? 4. If an employee is injured by vaccine forced upon them by a mandate can the employee sue the employer for damages? If not, why not? 5. Why does Fair Work Australia believe that employers are responsible for the transmission of an airborne virus? If it doesn’t think, that then why not legislate accordingly so that businesses (excluding hospitals and aged care centres) are not responsible for public health measures? 6. How are employers meant to trace the transmission of the virus to either their employees or customers? If it isn’t possible then why is Fair Work Australia allowing State Governments to impose rules that are impossible to apply or substantiate? 7. Is it fair and reasonable for an employee to be forced into taking a vaccine if the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission and doesn’t prevent hospitalisation and sickness? 8. If an employee is injured by the vaccine mandated by their employer can the employee claim compensation under Workcover? 9. I note that employers have been telling employees that they are not liable for vaccine injuries because the commonwealth government has indemnified them. Is this true?
Question Number: 46 PDR Number: EEC-AE22-046 Date Submitted: 22/02/2022 Department or Body: Attorney-General’s, including industrial relations matters Q1-3. To assist the Committee, the Fair Work Commission (Commission) provides the following information about its role in dealing with matters that may involve issues about vaccination requirements. The Commission is Australia’s national workplace relations tribunal. The Commission […]
Why is the RBA prepared to offer Quantitative Support to deal with Covid but won’t offer Quantative suport to build infrastructure?
Question Number: 89 PDR Number: AET089 Date Submitted: 22/02/2022 Department or Body: Treasury Decisions about infrastructure spending are outside the Reserve Bank’s mandate. This is a matter for the government
Why did the RBA not tell the Treasurer that there were significant risks, especially in regard to duplicate serial numbers and fake gold bars, around Australia’s gold holdings?
Question Number: 88 PDR Number: AET088 Date Submitted: 22/02/2022 Department or Body: Treasury The RBA is aware of the discovery of fake gold bars through duplicate refiners’ serial numbers in the smaller 1kg bar market, not the 400oz (11.3kg) LBMA Good Delivery bars that comprise the RBA’s holdings. As such, the RBA does not see […]
What plausible reason does the RBA in keeping Australia’s gold with a custodian of the gold that has found to be incapable of applying appropriate quality assurance around the custodianship of its client’s gold holdings?
Question Number: 87 PDR Number: AET087 Date Submitted: 22/02/2022 Department or Body: Treasury The Bank of England (BOE) provides a very secure and cost-effective storage location for central banks and other market participants. The Bank of England only accepts bars that comply with the London Bullion Market Association’s ‘Good Delivery’ standards. The Bank of England […]
1. Does ASIC require Gold dealers and custodians of gold to comply with the financial disclosure laws such as a product disclosure statement etc? 2. If not, why not? 3. Are gold dealers and custodians required to provide a unique identifier to every gold bar they claim to warehouse? 4. If not, why not? 5. Are dealers and custodians required to ensure investors in gold are allowed to see their gold holdings with the serial numbers? 6. If not, why not? 7. Does Gold meet the definition of a financial instrument under 763A of the Corporations Act given that it is used to manage financial risk (e.g. inflation)?
Question Number: 48 PDR Number: AET051 Date Submitted: 22/02/2022 Department or Body: Treasury 1-2. Gold bars are not a financial product and therefore not subject to financial disclosure laws. 3-6. ASIC does not regulate gold bars, and therefore does not have information about their identifiers. 7. No.
My question below refers to the figures contained within the report released on 15/02/2022 – https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia . Of the 2639 people that have died with or from Covid-19 by 31st of Jan 2022, why have the ABS stated that 2,556 (approximately 97%) have been directly caused by Covid? Is this not a misleading statement given that in the same report it is stated that 91.4% of the deaths in Australia had another condition listed on the death certificate, with an average of 2.7 other conditions being listed including cancer (14.1%) and chronic cardiac conditions (35.8%).
Question Number: 47 PDR Number: AET047 Date Submitted: 22/02/2022 Department or Body: Treasury The ABS report explains that Australian cause of death data is coded to an international classification governed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The ABS report notes that a death directly due to COVID-19 is defined by the WHO as a death […]
1. Does the ABS know how many coroner referred deaths were outstanding at the 31st October 2021? 2. What is the average duration for a death referred to a coroner to be eventually included in the ABS mortality statistics?
Question Number: 46 PDR Number: AET046 Date Submitted: 22/02/2022 Department or Body: Treasury 1. The ABS does not know the precise number of coroner-referred deaths outstanding (i.e. not yet registered and reported to ABS) as of 31 October 2021. The ABS typically receives information for about 80% of coroner-referred deaths within two months of the […]
The first law of Thermodynamics state that energy can neither be created or destroyed. Applying that law to Climate change science, how is it that an increase in CO2 levels of 100 ppm in the atmosphere can increase the temperature by 1 degree? That would imply that every extra CO2 molecule has to heat up 10,000 other molecules by 1 degree would it not? (i.e. a million over a hundred molecules) . Assuming CO2 has a specific density of 1.53 in the atmosphere doesn’t this mean that a CO2 molecule would have a temperature of 10,000/1.53 of 6,536 degrees to heat up the surrounding 10,000 molecules by 1 degree which of course is impossible?
Question Number: 34 PDR Number: AI-34 Date Submitted: 22/02/2022 Department or Body: Industry, Science, Engergy and Resources Please see answers previously provided at BI-7 and BI-34 from Budget Estimates 2020-21, and AI-57 from Additional Estimates 2020-2021. For questions relating to fundamental physics the relevant information is captured in the following reference material: The IPCC AR6 […]
