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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Anne Davies

Election forum walkouts after Craig Kelly labels vaccine mandates ‘an abuse of human rights’

Candidates at the voters forum held in the electorate of Hughes. Craig Kelly (at the lectern) from the United Australia party. NSW. Australia.
Candidates at the voters forum held in the electorate of Hughes. Craig Kelly (at the lectern) from the United Australia party. NSW. Australia. Photograph: Anne Davies/The Guardian

Several audience members walked out of a candidates’ forum in the southern Sydney seat of Hughes on Wednesday evening after the maverick MP Craig Kelly labelled mandatory vaccination in workplaces “an abuse of human rights” and “a very dark period in Australia’s history”.

Kelly, who quit the Liberal party last year, and is now standing for the United Australia party, said Australia was violating human rights by allowing workplaces to insist on vaccination.

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