BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.1//EN TZID:Australia/Sydney X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17@childrenshealthdefense.org.au DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230826T090000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230826T160000 DTSTAMP:20230825T235244Z URL:https://childrenshealthdefense.org.au/events/childrens-health-defense- australia-launch/ SUMMARY:Children's Health Defense Australia Launch DESCRIPTION:An inspiring launch event...\n \;\n\nJoin us for the Austra lian launch of Children's Health Defense\, the renowned organisation and n ow Australian chapter movement\, dedicated to making a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of children and families Down Under.\nFull Schedu le Here\nLunch Service and Morning Tea Facilities provided.\n\n \;\n\n Speakers include:\n\n\nProfessor Ian Brighthope\nHe graduated in Agricultu ral Science in 1965 and then in 1974 graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. The Brighthope Clinics and Biocentres were devel oped in the 1970’s.  They specialised in Nutritional\nMedicine\, Enviro nmental Medicine\, intravenous therapies including chelation therapy and h erbal medicine.  As chairman of the Australian College of Herbal Medicine \, he developed an early interest in cannabis and other controversial herb s.\nAs founding president of Australasian College of Nutritional and Envir onmental Medicine (ACNEM) and president for over 26 years\, Professor Brig hthope pioneered the first post-graduate medical course in nutrition and i ts related fellowship in Australia.  He is now the official ambassador of ACNEM.\n\nProfessor Brighthope has acted as an advocate for doctors pract ising Integrative Medicine for over 35 years.  He has had training and ex tensive experience in Crisis Management\, Risk Management and Public/Gover nment Relations.  He has also had extensive experience in the pharmaceuti cal manufacturing and exporting industry as the managing director of a TGA licensed facility.\n\nIn 2001 to 2003\, he was President of the Complemen tary Healthcare Council of Australia\, the peak industry body for Compleme ntary Medicines.  He delivered the Telstra National Press Club address in September 2002 on complementary medicines and sustainable health in an ag eing population.  Professor Brighthope is now the official ambassador to the peak body Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA)\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\n\n\nProfessor Robyn Cosford\nProfessor Robyn Cosford was an integrative medical practitioner\, naturopath and homeopath of over 35 years\, with a n Honours degree in Medicine and life membership of Australasian College o f Nutritional and Environmental Medicine and Australasian Society of Lifes tyle Medicine.\n\nShe was working in conjunction with the University of Ne wcastle from 1996 in the area of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\, and childrens' neurodevelopmental and behavioural disorders\, presented her findings at 3 international autism conferences\, and convened 2 Mind of Child conferen ces in Australia in 1998 and 2002\, introducing the area of biological tre atment of autism into Australia. The influence of the gut microbiome and a bnormalities have been a feature of ongoing research in conjunction with B ioscreen\, which came out of the University of Newcastle research team.\n\ nRobyn is fascinated in the energetics of life\, that we are body soul and spirit simultaneously\, and how these interact within us personally\, and in our connection with others and this Creation out of which we were form ed. She has done extra training in EFT\, various spiritual and energetic h ealing modalities\, the use of magnets and so on.\n\nAs a mother of 5\, sh e is passionate about the health of children\, families and interpersonal relationships. It is for these reasons that she chose to surrender her med ical license\, ahead of being deregistered for writing mask exemptions\, v accine exemptions and Ivermectin scripts in defiance of the AHPRA gag orde r of March 2022\,  so that she could speak openly about what the current situation and the threat to the health and wellness of people and children in particular.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nProfessor Gigi Foster\nGigi Foste r (BA Ethics\, Politics and Economics\, PhD Economics)\, Professor with th e School of Economics at the University of New South Wales\, was born\, ra ised and educated in the USA and emigrated to Australia in 2003. She works in diverse fields including education\, social influence\, time use\, lab experiments\, behavioural economics\, and Australian policy. Named 2019 Y oung Economist of the Year by the Economic Society of Australia\, she publ ishes in both specialised and cross-disciplinary outlets\, and her innovat ive teaching was awarded a 2017 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. She has filled numerous roles of service to the profession and engages heavily on economic matters with the Australian community\, as one of Australia’s leading economics communicators\, in the media and at live events. She co- founded the think tank Australians for Science and Freedom in 2023 and is an author most recently of The Great Covid Panic (Brownstone Institute 202 1\, with Paul Frijters and Michael Baker) and Do Lockdowns and Border Clos ures Serve the “Greater Good”? (Connor Court 2022\, with Sanjeev Sabhl ok).\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nSenator Malcolm Robe rts\nMalcolm brings to the Senate a thorough\, practical and analytical ap proach to examining issues and is deeply committed to listening and thorou ghly researching the facts. During the Covid pandemic Senator Roberts has spoken out about the impact of the mandates and calls for essential freedo m and liberties to be restored for all Australians. He rejects a two-tier society based on vaccination status and in 2022 hosted two cross-party inq uiries "COVID under question" and "COVID Inquiry 2.0"\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nProfessor Ramesh Thakur\n Ramesh Thakur Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy\, The Australian National University\, where he was Director of th e Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. He was formerly Se nior Vice Rector of the United Nations University and Assistant Secretary- General of the United Nations. Educated in India and Canada\, he has held full-time academic appointments in Fiji\, New Zealand\, Canada\, and Austr alia and been a consultant to the Australian\, New Zealand and Norwegian g overnments on arms control\, disarmament and international security issues .\n\nSince the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Professor Thakur has becom e one of the leading critics of the Australian government’s actions amid the hasty formation of ‘policy’ as a part of its pandemic response\, with numerous articles published in The Spectator and The Brownstone Insti tute. Now a grandfather\, Ramesh has decided to expand and continue his ef forts in exposing inefficient and ineffective governance\, and pursue a ne w path with Children’s Health Defense Australia. He is passionate about working to protect the health and well-being of children\, by applying his knowledge and professional expertise to this important cause.  Professor Thakur is an author of numerous books\, hundreds of published journal ess ays and is a proud founder of Australians for Science and Freedom.\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n\nDr Astrid Lefringhausen\nDr Astrid Lefringhausen studied biology at University Kiel in Germany\, finishing with a Diploma in Microbiology\, Doctorate in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at University Kiel in 199 6. During this time she was also working as a nurse in Radiology\, teachin g medicinal microbiology to nurse students at the German Red Cross and wor k in the Biotechnology research facility of Bayer.\n\nAstrid worked from 1 996 to 2004 for Qiagen (a Molecular Biology start up at the time)\, first as a Technical Sales Representative then Export Manager for the Asia Pacif ic Region. From 2004 to 2012 she worked for Miltenyi Biotec (German Cell t herapy and Immunology company) as Export manager for Eastern Europe\, Afri ca and South and Middle America\, overseeing installing\, teaching and mon itoring stem and immune cell therapy for terminal cancer patients across h ospitals in her territory. She moved to Australia in 2006 while employed b y Miltenyi Biotec and took over Sales and Technical Support for AU/NZ in t he molecular area\, for Immunology in multiple states. Since 2015 Astrid h as been working in the diagnostics industry with Pathologies and Universit ies across Australia and New Zealand in the area of cell chemistry\, immun ohaematology.\n\nAlong with Dr Conny Turni\, Astrid published “COVID-19 vaccines – an Australian review” in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clini cal and Experimental Immunology\, exploring COVID-19 vaccines in Australia \; the promises and predictions originally made versus the actual facts\, and evaluating the safety and efficacy by way of reviewing the literature and the data from government agencies over the pandemic.\n...with more to be announced ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://childrenshealthdefense.org.au/wp-content /uploads/Untitled-design.jpg LOCATION:The Well Function Centre\, 58 Highland Way\, Upper Coomera\, QLD\, 4209\, Australia X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=58 Highland Way\, Upper Coo mera\, QLD\, 4209\, Australia;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Well Function Centre:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Sydney X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20230402T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR