Here, let this story be told by someone much more important than me; Professor
Ramesh Thakur, a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. A bill before the Queensland Parliament is to be debated and voted into law on October 11, and according to a press release from the Australian Medical Network (AMN):
"It will compel doctors to refrain from saying anything that reduces “public confidence in safety.” According to the AMN, the new law means (1) “government health bureaucrats will determine how doctors should approach treatment recommendations for their patients” and (2) would give to the health regulators “the power to sanction doctors for expressing their professional opinion based on their assessment of the best available science.”