Originally Posted by
dr dre
Just checking you're aware of how our system of government works. In order to influence policy you need to do more than sit in a crackpot crossbencher's office while he types an email.
There's 76 members of the Senate and 151 in the House of Representatives. You need a majority to pass legislation in both.
There's 7 Senators who'll support measures like this, One Nation's Bill from last year with their two members (Hanson and Roberts), 4 LNP (Antic, Canavan, Rennick, Fierravanti-Wells) and one on the crossbench (McMahon). There's about two in the House, Kelly and Christensen. So out of 223 members there's a total of 9 members who'd support measures like this. That's around 4%. Which matches the amount of Australian adults who have chosen not to receive a Covid vaccine.
This is also known as a "incredibly small but noisy minority". So my point stands, these people will have no bearing on any policy announced by the government or the opposition if they win the next election. Craig Kelly, now he's an independent, will almost certainly lose his seat at the next election so the best any of these anti vaccine protesters can hope for is to join Craig on his Sky News After Dark program he will probably host after he loses his seat.
We have seen the "Fringe Minority" at work in Canada.