Australia’s Anti-Vaccine Movement Is Collapsing.

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Australia's anti-vaccine activists seized on COVID-19 and grew into an energetic and active movement. Now, their cause is falling apart.

The founder of Australia’s biggest anti-vaccine group looks exhausted in a video posted to Reignite Democracy Australia’s remaining social media accounts this week; a weary Monica Smit complains to her followers about the costs of running the group and employing staff as she asks for money.

Launched during the peak of Australia’s 2020 strict COVID-19 restrictions and just after the first vaccine had been approved for use, Reignite Democracy Australia has played a key role in the effort to undermine Australia’s vaccination rollout.

Despite its best efforts of creating viral medical misinformation, storming MPs' offices, and leading protests, it has been unsuccessful.  Australia is one of the most vaccinated nations in the world and is emerging from the pandemic with one of the lowest death tolls.  Even half of those aged five to 11 have received at least one vaccine dose, despite anti-vaccine groups having tried and failed to capitalize on parent's natural squeamishness about young children.

The group's digital reach is shrinking, too.  Once riding high with ballooning follower counts on platforms like Facebook and Telegram, Reignite Democracy Australia has been banned from the former and is seeing much less traction from the latter.

Telegram has become the platform du jour for conspiracy groups because of its practically non-existent approach to content moderation.  Reignite Democracy Australia’s channel is one of Australia’s largest, with 75,000 members.  For the last month, however, its channel has been consistently losing participants.

The anti-vaccine movement tried its hand at electoral politics but has been unsuccessful so far.  Despite a widely held mistrust in institutions, many involved have or are seeking office.  In the state elections since the pandemic, no single-issue, anti-vaccine, anti-mandate candidate has been even close to being elected, nor has there been a surge in support for established parties who flirt with the movement such as Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.  Several groups are jostling for the anti-vaccine vote in the upcoming federal election, but polling is not picking up a significant bump in their support.

Source:  This 'Crikey' Article 

Whos says there's no good news?

Who can forgot what these creeps were doing during the height of the anti-vaxx protests
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ourne.html

Only problem is now we don't know who they are as they bury themselves underground

Must be because too many of them are dying.

Crikey is deliberately lying to you here. They are known for it. Totally establishment controlled.
Reignite Democracy Australia are not the "anti-vaxxers". (othering is bad btw)
Reignite Democracy Australia is "controlled opposition". Controlled opposition Their base members are good people who know something is wrong but they don't control the organization.
RDA linked with Clive Palmer, Craig Kelly UAP (also controlled opposition) for a while, then split off. All connected.
They are not the only controlled opposition group or individual in Australia. It's a bit of a spy novel.
Clue 1 is the short jail sentence or other public injustice to establish credibility as not being part of the establishment.
Clue 2 look at their connections including historical and family.
Clue 3 distrust anyone that gets mainstream media exposure, good or bad. Negative stories will attract the opposition supporters. Then they are controlled. Catch on?.
Clue 4 where did they go to school.
These groups go close to the truth but leave out the important things. Lead their followers nowhere. In Russia they waited 5 years for the counter-revolution only to be executed or sent to gulags.
One test is will they talk about certain issues that the media will not mention. Only one organization and a few individuals do.
It should be very disturbing to anyone that such tactics are being used. And not one politician or media is calling it out. Not even the prominent well funded "freedom" parties. It's like they are all in on it.