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:
1 February 2024
3.4 MINS
In a decision handed down on 15 January 2024, the Tribunal determined that Daniel Shepherd’s employment was "a significant contributing cause" to his vaccine injury, which has since rendered him incapable of performing his role at work.
22 January 2024
2.2 MINS
Political affiliation remains the most reliable predictor of attitudes towards the safety of Covid vaccines.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Initiates Civil Penalty Proceedings Against Social Media Platform X
28 December 2023
3.4 MINS
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant famously suggested a “recalibration” of human rights in online spaces, including freedom of speech, at a WEF meeting in 2022.
26 December 2023
5.6 MINS
AHPRA's Covid-19 gag order has been superseded. But doctors say the regulatory environment remains "hostile to individualised care".
8 November 2023
5.9 MINS
When I first heard of the think-tank and associated event, I thought that responsible citizenship sounded like the appropriate way to push back against the increasingly pervasive centralisation of power occurring throughout the West.
17 October 2023
4.5 MINS
Australian Senators voted down a motion calling for acknowledgment of Australia’s record-high excess deaths, and the need for an inquiry. Now, the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society (AMPS) has taken it upon themselves to conduct an independent inquiry.
16 October 2023
6.2 MINS
Australia emphatically rejected enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament advisory body in the constitution at the weekend’s referendum, with a 60/40 split for No vs. Yes.
6 October 2023
1.9 MINS
YouTube removed my new interview with Topher Field and issued a strike to The Aussie Wire account, citing a breach of its medical misinformation policy.
5 October 2023
3.6 MINS
Scientists are calling for urgent research to test whether the DNA contamination is lingering in the cells of mRNA-vaccinated people, and whether the human genome has in fact been altered by mRNA Covid vaccines.
6 September 2023
2.3 MINS
We are at the ‘no one made you take it, it was your choice’ stage of the pandemic. Pfizer reps say a ‘mandate’ is the same thing as an ‘opportunity.’ Do you agree with this?
21 August 2023
4.9 MINS
An in-depth analysis of Queensland mortality data pinpoints the uptick in deaths during the primary series rollout, and before borders opened allowing Covid to spread in the community.
1 August 2023
4.7 MINS
The human genome could be permanently altered. A Victorian doctor and pharmacist is seeking an injunction from the Federal Court of Australia to stop Pfizer and Moderna from distributing their mRNA Covid vaccines. Dr Julian Fidge alleges that both the monovalent and bivalent vaccines contain [...]
12 July 2023
5 MINS
Meta platforms are a primary source of news for most Australians. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is the latest international mega-company to get involved in Australia’s upcoming referendum regarding an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, after Pfizer pledged its support for the Yes campaign earlier this year. [...]
10 July 2023
4.3 MINS
Experts told you Covid vaccine side effects were already known. That was a whopper of a lie burger. In August 2021, ABC released a Covid vaccine campaign video called ‘Vax Facts!’ In the video, TV doctor Norman Swan told Australians that when it came to [...]
5 June 2023
2.6 MINS
The Australian government censors the idea that men can't breastfeed. Earlier this week I reported on a series of document releases revealing that the Australian Government had colluded with Big Tech platforms to censor online speech related to Covid. Several days later, the Australian edition of the Twitter [...]
2 June 2023
4.4 MINS
The Australian Government secretly surveilled and sought censorship of online Covid-related speech throughout the pandemic in partnership with Big Tech platforms, newly released documents show. My new article for Umbrella News synthesises last week’s news drops which included Senator Alex Antic’s FOI release pertaining to the Department [...]
2 June 2023
4.1 MINS
The censorship industrial complex suppressed speech on Covid-19. A Freedom of Information request by Senator Alex Antic has revealed that the Australian Department of Home Affairs made over 4,000 requests to digital platforms to take down content related to Covid. The FOI documents ((FA 22/12/00629: [...]
15 May 2023
3.9 MINS
A Covid vaccine booster trial continues to recruit adolescents despite Australia’s vaccine advisory body, ATAGI, acknowledging the comparatively high risks associated with boosters compared to comparatively low risks associated with Covid infection for healthy young people. The PICOBOO study was launched at the Telethon Kids Institute last [...]
11 May 2023
3 MINS
Doctors will be free to prescribe ivermectin ‘off-label’ from 01 June 2023, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced on 3 May. A Regulatory U-turn This is a reversal of a national ban on off-label prescribing of ivermectin, which the TGA enacted on 10 September 2021, in an attempt [...]
10 May 2023
5.2 MINS
The following is a guest post by Gabrielle Bauer, author of the new book BLINDSIGHT IS 2020: Perspectives on Covid policies from dissident scientists, philosophers, artists, and more. Bauer and I crossed paths as fellow Brownstone contributors, and I think readers will enjoy her expansive and grounded [...]





