It’s difficult to find out the truth about something if you’re not willing to investigate it. From Dr. Julie Sladden at maryannedemasi.com:
After US regulators linked child deaths to Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, an Australian senator has demanded to know why reported child deaths in Australia were not escalated for expert causality assessment.
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Dr Julie Sladden is a retired medical doctor in Australia committed to truth and transparency in healthcare.
When the US drug regulator announced it was investigating deaths linked to the Covid-19 vaccine, an Australian senator turned to our own regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), to ask why the same scrutiny had never occurred here.
The answer, it turns out, is deeply unsettling.
Australia’s surveillance system had logged reports of deaths after Covid-19 vaccination — including deaths in children — yet almost none of those cases were referred for expert causality assessment.
Nearly three years would pass before Australia withdrew its recommendation to vaccinate healthy children.
Australia’s vaccine safety data
In September 2025, the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) uploaded a report summarising Australia’s spontaneous surveillance data for adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) for Covid-19 vaccines administered in 2022.
Although dated March 2025, the report covers the second year of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout — including the first year the vaccines were offered to children aged 11 years and under.
The figures are stark.
In 2022, Australia recorded 18,398 adverse event reports following Covid-19 vaccination. Of these, 160 involved a fatal outcome. Six of the reported deaths occurred in children aged 0 to 17.
The report takes pains to clarify that “reporting a death to the TGA does not mean that the vaccine caused the death, or that the individual completing the report considers that the death was caused by a vaccine” and concludes that “safety monitoring continued to demonstrate a reassuring safety profile.”
However, the timing of these deaths complicates that claim.
A few eggs have to get broken on the road to the global soviet.