Update Australia 08-08-22
We are still seeing that increased activity in South Australia, as well as looking at things in Victoria and across the entire country of Australia. So we have some good information for you today. Good morning, Australian chiropractors and allied health professionals. My name is Bharon Hoag. I am the Executive Director of The Chiropractic Defense Council, coming to you today, August 8th, 2022, for your weekly update.
I hope you had an incredible week this week. We did have an opportunity last week to do a webinar with you guys and our legal team, explaining what’s going on in South Australia, what we’re seeing, and the steps we want you guys to take. Hopefully, we had a great turnout for that. And hopefully, that gave you peace of mind to not overreact to what’s going on in South Australia. It’s somewhat expected, and our team is a hundred percent on board with that.
We did record the webinar. So if you didn’t get a chance to see that, and you’re from South Australia, please reach out to me, and I’d be happy to send you a link. And for the rest of the country, we’re still looking at what the government is doing. We’re heading into the end of the year, and if you look back at the previous videos that I’ve shared with you, we’re expecting some weird stuff to be happening as we lead into the end of the year.
You have The World Health Organization talking about Monkeypox. We have all these crazy things now that kind of put the cats out of the bag, as far as our world knowing that it can put fear into the populations. We just don’t know what’s going to be the next wave. However, in organizations like ours, and though we’re not the only ones that do the work that we do, we are the only one for our specialties. But other organizations are working very hard to make sure that governments don’t have the ability to do that.
That’s exactly what we’re doing with our legal case. We did have a big donor give us some money, which is fantastic. That brings us closer to our ability to launch this suit. We’re still trying to look for some more money. Again, the objective with this thing is to make sure that all the money is in so that we don’t have any delays once we’re fighting it.
We’re still looking at raising about another $150,000. Thank you so much, those of you that have already reached out. It’s been incredible. But I know our legal team is itching to get moving on this and we’re doing our best to make sure we put it in a position to win. We know that our case is solid, but now it’s a matter of outstaying the government financially to make sure that we can hold them accountable for their activities, not only what they did in the past, but what they can do moving forward in the future.
So we’re still very passionate about this particular project, but throughout the rest of Australia, it’s been relatively quiet. In Victoria, we’re not hearing much there have not been any further complaints and we’re not seeing a lot of follow-ups. Everything’s been pretty quiet. The only place that we’ve seen noise has been in South Australia.
We had that webinar for our people, letting them know how to move forward. So relatively calm there, but in the rest of the world, things are really in flux. We don’t know what’s going on. As I said, The World Health Organization is throwing some things out there. We’re not sure if that’s just rhetoric or if there’s something behind it. So we’re going to be monitoring that.
In Australia, we’ve talked to you about this before, we are moving forward proactively. There has always been a certain political element to all of this that we haven’t spent a lot of time on. We’ve been defending your rights, making sure that you can practice, to make sure that you’re not put in fear if you will. We want you out there serving. We want you to do what you do for a living and we need to be proactive.
And so we will start reaching out politically, and we’re holding some calls with our team. We’re going to start looking at building some relationships to make sure that as we move forward, we’re in a better position to unify and make things happen and prevent things like the pandemic from happening in the future. You’re going to be hearing me talk about some of that.
We’re going to be working with a number of organizations throughout Australia. Our goal is not to do what they do. Our goal is to strengthen what they’re doing so that we can create some positive results. As we move forward, please be aware of that. And my last task is going to be to grab more people to be a part of what we’re doing.
I’m asking you to talk to your colleagues. I appreciate all of you. We’ve been staying pretty stable on our level of contributors, which has enabled us to pay for the ongoing work that our legal teams are doing for each individual case. But we need to continue to grow. Our goal is to double the size in Australia, which means we need more people to be a part of this.
I don’t want you as an individual to give more. I want you to help me spread the word so more people can give a little. That’s the whole vision behind The Defense Council. And so as we get proactive, as we start moving forward, dealing with things like OPRA, dealing with political issues, and then of course, making sure your rights are protected, in general.
There’s just more power when we do these things and when we represent more people. I’m asking you to please continue to spread the word with your colleagues. I don’t know any other program in the world where it’s that little bit a month that gives you the protection and the work that we’re doing, and that’s by design. I’m hoping this will continue to flourish.
We’ll continue to grow. And, we can make some serious positive steps in Australia on behalf of chiropractic and allied health and our form of healthcare. We love you. We appreciate you having an incredible week this week. I’ll be back to you next week with more information. God bless you. (This is a computer-generated transcript. Please forgive any errors.)
