Rebekah Barnett
Rebekah Barnett is an independent journalist based in Western Australia. She holds a BA (Hons First Class) in Communications. Find her work at Dystopian Down Under.
Articles by Rebekah Barnett:
9 April 2025
13.3 MINS
A preprint showing an association between increased excess cancer deaths and the modified-RNA (modRNA) Covid vaccine rollout has been retracted for the second time without good explanation.
7 April 2025
4.8 MINS
Do people have the right to participate in charged social debates online? This is the question at the heart of a lawsuit between Australia’s online harms regulator, the eSafety Commissioner, on one side, with gender critical activist Chris Elton (aka Billboard Chris) and social media platform X on the other.
1 April 2025
5.6 MINS
The manufacturing process used by both Pfizer and Moderna has resulted in DNA contamination at levels far above the regulatory limit being found in an increasing number of mRNA vaccine vials around the world, including in an FDA lab.
24 March 2025
3.3 MINS
Two more Australian local governments have agreed to advocate for their constituents on Covid vaccine safety, calling for precautionary action over excessive DNA contamination in the mRNA vaccines.
24 March 2025
2.7 MINS
In news last week, we learned the incredible lengths taken by the Victorian government to hide the health advice on which its extremist Covid policies were supposedly based.
14 March 2025
9.1 MINS
The new report from the Australian Human Rights Commission, titled “Collateral Damage”, sheds some predictable but important light on the human rights abuses during the Covid years. But it still falls far short of a proper investigation.
6 March 2025
6.9 MINS
I’m really concerned about how we’re losing the ability to reason without being hijacked by our own amygdala. I just care about people being given the facts so that they can make up their own minds. So, if people want to engage me on the facts, great! But that’s not what happens.
4 March 2025
8.8 MINS
Three years after it became universally acknowledged that Covid vaccines provide negligible protection against infection and transmission, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has finally dropped its Covid vaccine mandate.
20 February 2025
2.4 MINS
From the point of view of the public health establishment, the polio vaccine has prevented millions of cases and has nearly eradicated the disease. At the same time, the world’s poorest are afflicted with vaccine-derived polio outbreaks which we can work to prevent.
19 February 2025
5 MINS
The David Declaration, signed by eminent doctors, scientists, and professionals, has intensified calls for government action on Covid modified-RNA vaccine safety concerns.
10 February 2025
3.2 MINS
Now, US-based public health watchdog Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) doesn’t hold any evidence for its safety claims for Covid vaccines.
3 February 2025
9.9 MINS
Amidst the whirlwind of executive orders issued by incoming US President Donald Trump two weeks ago was the news that the US intends to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO). The news has shone the spotlight on problems within the WHO that have until now been largely ignored.
23 January 2025
11.9 MINS
Some vaccine-injured people recognised what happened to them, accepted it, and joined the campaign for better research and vaccine safety. Yet, this has not uniformly been the case. A good many others remain in the dark, despite dealing with sudden and ongoing mystery illnesses.
13 January 2025
7.6 MINS
Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, last week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy, or to end it. Zuckerberg announced several changes to Meta’s moderation approach, including replacing third-party fact-checkers with a user-driven Community Notes model.
20 December 2024
12.7 MINS
The Therapeutic Goods Administration withheld information on DNA contamination risks from the public, presenting a picture of certainty where there is none.
19 December 2024
7.6 MINS
Australia’s drug regulator has repeatedly stated that residual synthetic DNA in mRNA vaccines poses no risk, despite credible concerns for long-term health consequences, including the risk of cancer and genomic integration.
17 December 2024
3.7 MINS
In a blistering repudiation, the Supreme Court Justice said that the conduct of AHPRA and the Medical Board regarding Dr William Bay had been "less than profoundly unsatisfactory”.
13 December 2024
5.8 MINS
The new Moderna factory opened in Victoria this week with the promise of pumping out up to 100 million doses of mRNA vaccines per year, amid rising vaccine hesitancy and unresolved safety concerns.
2 December 2024
3.1 MINS
Australians will not have to present a Digital ID or other form of government ID to use social media under new laws setting the minimum age of social media access to 16.
29 November 2024
6 MINS
Australia is the first country to set the minimum age of social media access to 16, after a landmark bill passed in the Senate late into the evening on the final sitting day of the year.





