Reclaim The Line

📣 My opening statement from the roundtable inquiry today. As I share this I am no longer protected by Parliamentary privilege but there is nothing in my statement that is defamatory and/or untrue.

The opening statement could only be 3 to 4 minutes so I did my best to capture our sentiment. The rest of the roundtable inquiry remains confidential to protect other participants.

"My name is Christian Marchegiani but everyone calls me Mack. I was a high school Science teacher at a private boys boarding school in Sydney. That was until August last year when the Premier at the time Ms Gladys Berijiklian and Health Minister Mr Brad Hazzard on the advice of Dr Kerry Chant implemented vaccine mandates on anyone and eveyone working in the education sector, including early childhood, primary, and secondary teachers, SLSO's, administration staff, maintenance staff, traffic control staff, and learning support staff.

I was fortunate at the time that my Headmaster and Deputy Headmaster were supportive of my decision not to get vaccinated but unfortunatley many others in the same situation were not so lucky.

This became apparent when I released a video calling for all affected staff in education to join a group I had formed with others called NSW Education United. Within 2 weeks this private group grew to 7000 staff members across NSW.

By the end of the month we had reached 14000 members. Once every other state mandated the vaccine for education workers we opened our membership to all states and within a week we had reached 31000 members.

We changed our name to National United and began a campaign of writing to our local MP's, Petitions, Phone calls to the Premier and Prime Minister, and eventually nationwide protests each week.

At first we were met with heavy police presence, the threat of rubber bullets, pepper spray, and arrest. We still showed up, even in torrential rain, because what you had here was not a bunch of misfits wanting to cause trouble, but thousands of ordinary Aussies who just wanted to work without being coerced to take a vaccine that according to the TGA was still in its experimental trials.

Eventually the police resistance subsided once they too were mandated and a further 300 NSW Police officers joined our group.

Along the way I met many men, women, and children who were extremely traumatised by the way the Department of Education under Secretary Ms Georgina Harrison and Education Minister Ms Sarah Mitchell had treated them.

People who had dedicated years of service to education were now being placed under investigation for misconduct because they did not want to receive the vaccine.

They were placed on the same Do Not Employ list as convicted Pedofiles. Families were shattered and destroyed all in the name of a science.

We wrote leters in the thousands to the NSW Teachers Federation and Independent Education Union asking for help but they just told us to follow the public health orders and trust the science. They too let us down.

We then wrote to the TGA, AHPRA, AMA, NSW Health, the Human Rights Commission and any other establishment we could reach asking for the evidence and data to show that the vaccines were safe, effective, and necessary.

This data has never been presented to us and when we submitted a Freedom of Information request we were told it does not exist.

I am here representing the thousands of staff who were let down by this government, their employers, and the nsw health department on what is one of the most shameful and disgraceful periods in our nations history.

The group I lead is strong, united, and growing by the day. We will not rest until all mandates are dropped for all sectors of society not just education.

I want it stated on the record on behalf of the tens of thousands I represent, an appreciative thank you to the Chair Mr Mark Latham of ONE Nation and Mrs Tanya Davies of the Liberal Party who were the only ones to show support and cared enough to attended our protests outside this house to speak to the people of NSW.

Thank You"

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