Live recording of The Big Issue &The Protagonists on The World Today.

Hour 1: VicGrid and The Victorian Renewables Rollout.

In December 2025, Victorian farmers continued their widespread protests against the VicGrid (Victorian Government's energy infrastructure agency) proposed transmission lines, blocking access to their farmland.

Using tractors and gathering in the hundreds, Farmers physically blocked VicGrid surveyors and officials from accessing their properties to defy the State government's aggressive rollout of renewable energy projects.

Farmers are being ignored, that their land and livelihoods are are at risk and rural communities have been seriously divided by the Government's actions.

Farmers are standing firm against fines and increased police powers and confrontations look to continue as VicGrid attempts to conduct surveys for supporting infrastructure.

Mike Ryan HOST

GUESTS:

Ross Johns President of the Wimmera Mallee Environmental & Agricultural Protection Association.

Ben Duxon, Glendemar Merino Stud, Glendemar Farm.

James Burke, Burke Farming. James Burke is a farmer and proprietor of BB Harvesting a premier provider of grain harvesting services, servicing the East Coast of Australia.

HOUR 2: Failures In UK Pharma & Biotech.

We have spoken many times about the expensive inquiries in most of Commonwealth countries following the Covid19 Pandemic.

These inquiries have studiously avoided any explanation of what our Governments were attempting to do and how so many officials conspired to engage in such abhorrent, deviant and some may say, criminal behaviour.

We do of course know the consequences of their actions but what motivated them, and how were they able to carry out their plans on such a devastating scale in so many countries?

How did they do it? Was it led by a very small group of generals, whose policies were carried out meticulously by obedient front line troops.

It's troubling to think about but are our public health services - the most obvious places to roll out population-wide medical experiments?

Our panel today will give us valuable insights into this question and how the regulatory agencies failed so spectacularly during the most critical time.

How influential is the UK pharmaceutical industrial complex and was it the epicentre of the global Covid scam?

Is this where the buck should ultimately stop?

Mike Ryan HOST

GUESTS:

Elizabeth Hart is an independent person investigating the over-use of vaccine products and conflicts of interest in vaccination policy. The ethical aspects of over-vaccination, especially mandated vaccination, are of particular interest to her. Elizabeth has a degree majoring in politics and philosophy, and experience in scientific literature searching.

Cheryl Grainger is a self-employed Training Consultant to the Pharmaceutical Industry in the ABPI Code of Practice, The NHS, Anatomy & Physiology, Diseases, Immunology, Micro-organisms, Development of a Drug, Pharmacology, Statistics in Medicine & Clinical Trials.

From March 2020 She knew everything she was being told was illogical and unscientific and everything she had been trained to teach others within the industry was now apparently non-applicable.

She has taken on the MHRA calling them out at their board meeting, sending FOI's including trying to obtain the AstraZeneca primary data etc.

This year she completed a two-year fight with the MHRA to release Pregnancy data through a first-tier Tribunal. MHRA was forced to publish their interpretation of the results of MHRA's Yellow Card Vaccine Monitor.

Dr David Richards is a former UK citizen and keen observer of British social and political trends and author of the forthcoming book Deductive Entropy, which uses chaos theory to show how Australia is drifting toward instability. David is also co-founder of Australians for Science and Freedom, a General Practitioner and Adjunct Professor at an Australian University in the faculty of medicine. He graduated from London University in 1984, having also completed an Honours Degree in Human Genetics and Immunology. He has peer reviewed papers for a major European Journal and presented at International Conferences on Genetics and Carotid Ultrasound.

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