GMO decision ... Appearances .. Family, friends, and professional acquaintances
.. success in life is all about relationships .. relationships
good Substack folk,
yesterday's information on Justice Rofe failing to disclose a most significant prior relationship with Pfizer has folk angry and unhappy
GMO decision .. when is a Judge not a Judge?
good Substack folk, we have received many messages of outrage following the decision by Justice Rofe handed down 1 March in our GMO proceedings a great deal of review and discussion has already been underway yes, discussions definitely include appealing
.. the comments left in the article clearly convey community sentiment
The People are not happy with this development
the picture colours further shades when one looks to family ties with Covid research funding, millions in grant money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Australian science organisations scrambling for a piece of the modRNA development pie
.. now to begin, appearances are everything
and
.. appearances may very well not be as they appear, but to the guy in the street (you and me) it is where we all must begin
so a few items
Her Honour appears to have enjoyed a good relationship with her departed cousin, Sir Andrew Grimwade .. Sir Andrew was a powerhouse
.. Sir Andrew you will recall attended the 2021 Federal Court swearing-in of Justice Rofe and was mentioned more than once .. a most distinguished guest
before 2021 Justice Rofe served as the Acting Chair on the Human Research and Ethics Committee (HREC) at Bolton Clarke from December 2018 to September 2021
Bolton Clarke received research grants from the Felton Bequest which Sir Andrew was on the Board of Trustees of, until his death in early 2023
.. point being, Justice Rofe and Sir Andrew appear to have maintained close contact involving common scientific endeavours
Sir Andrew was on the Board of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute' (WEHI) for 15 years, 14 of those as President, retiring from the Board in 1993
the WEHI is Australia's largest medical research institute and has been around since 1915 .. they are very big cheese
until his death in January 2023, Sir Andrew appears to have kept up close contacts with the WEHI .. as his obituary confirms .. he appears to have run in the same circles all of his life especially after steering the WEHI .. as we all often do .. such is life
from the start of Covid the WEHI received lots of Australian government funding for Covid projects .. $13.5MM
the WEHI has also received over US$30MM in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2007
.. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has also provided over US$180MM to Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna
.. and Bill we all know, made Billions off of Covid .. modRNA is one of his favourite things
and lastly .. for now
WEHI Director, Professor Doug Hilton, is part of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Victorian government initiative mRNA Victoria Research Acceleration Fund .. that has also seen money go to the WEHI for modRNA projects
.. so we can say for the WEHI .. its modRNA all the way
and let us not forget ..
Moderna has entered into a 10 year contract with the Australian government to manufacture 100 million doses of mRNA vaccines per year
and we all know Her Honour holds a Bachelor of Science with a major in genetics .. genetics are modRNA territory, like it or not
now returning to the guy in the street .. you and me
what we can see above is a cousin (Sir Andrew) with a very long and confirmed history of scientific interests, which interest he shared with Her Honour
those interests involved a multitude of funding sources, which all require that a multitude of relationships be maintained for those funding sources to continue
.. lots of functions, dinners, meetings, and cocktail parties
.. and from time to time, meetings and dinners with old friends who fly in on private jets
.. now I think it is fair to observe
.. when you come from a family with powerful and historic influences and you partake in common business initiatives, one tends to support all of those initiatives in order to preserve the common enterprise and historic family influence
.. and that often means supporting all those associated, particularly sources of great funding
.. now here we are
all of this, along with her Honour representing Pfizer on at least 4 significant court actions obligated her Honour to notify the parties of the possible conflicts, even perceived
that would ordinarily occur at the start of any court action
That did not occur ... and that's what makes this situation not pass the pub test
Finally, it is not as if we have a shortage of Federal Court judges Australia .. not that this observation is any excuse
.. in Melbourne alone, 14 Federal Court judges preside .. plenty to avoid raising the spectre of an apprehension of bias
I will leave it at that for now
.. and a hat/tip for much of the above from an intrepid reader
look forward to your comments and anything further readers can add
I met the Intrepid Reader who supplied so much useful information on the Genealogy of BigPharma bigwigs related to Justice Rofe recently. Real Dynamo. More to come!
It must be dawning on others as it is on me that this country seems to be built on a system of patronages and codes of dishonour, WAY more tangled and pervasive than the so-called larrikin history of the country. Would we be this disinclined to trust our “elite” class had covid never happened? Our judiciary, politicians, senior law enforcement, heads of academia, editors, doctors, professors ... the list goes on. How many of them are NOT coopted or corrupt? How many ARE ethical and mora, or believe in right and wrong regardless of personal feeling or financial consequence? A judge MUST be impartial and be beholden only to the law ... that’s it ... this panoply of vested interests and professional connections MUST be known, otherwise there can be no honest judgment of the law. Regardless of the outcome here specifically, what you’re continuing to expose may be more important, so please do not stop Julian.