The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reach in Australia, By James Reed

Alison Bevege, an independent journalist, published an article on her Substack, Letters from Australia, titled "Australia Tangled in a Gates Foundation Influence Web Even as the US Tries to Rip Free with Three Key Appointments."

https://lettersfromaustralia.substack.com/p/australia-tangled-in-a-gates-foundation

The piece investigates the extensive reach of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Australia, framing it as a pervasive influence network that shapes public health policy, particularly around vaccines and mRNA technology. Bevege argues that while the United States is attempting to distance itself from this influence through recent political appointments—namely Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as NIH Director, and Joe Rogan in an unspecified communications role—Australia remains deeply enmeshed.

The article details how the Gates Foundation's funding tentacles extend into Australian institutions, citing its $5 million grant in 2020 to the University of Queensland (UQ) for Covid-19 vaccine development as a flagship example. This project, which aimed to produce a molecular clamp vaccine, collapsed in Phase 1 trials after triggering false-positive HIV test results, yet Bevege notes the Foundation's broader impact persists. She points to the Foundation's $323 million in grants to Australian entities between 2001 and 2023, targeting universities, NGOs, and media outlets like The Conversation and Guardian Australia. Specific instances include $750,000 to Murdoch University in 2022 for vaccine research and $2 million to the Burnet Institute in 2020 for Covid diagnostics, illustrating a pattern of financial leverage over science and policy.

Bevege critiques this as "soft-power medical colonialism," suggesting the Foundation bypasses democratic oversight by funding compliant institutions and amplifying pro-vaccine narratives. She highlights Australia's mRNA deals—like the 2021 Moderna agreement brokered under Scott Morrison—and ties them to Gates-backed entities like CEPI, which co-funded UQ's work. The article also notes the Foundation's global influence, such as its role in the WHO's immunisation programs, and contrasts this with U.S. efforts to pivot away under a Trump administration sceptical of such networks.It is a "powerful, global" web stitching up the world.

The piece concludes with a call to action: Australia must "rip free" from this influence, especially as excess deaths linger post-Covid and public trust wanes. Bevege frames the Gates Foundation's role as an ideological project—hinting at eugenics undertones—contrasting it with America's emerging resistance led by figures like RFK Jr., known for vaccine scepticism, and Bhattacharya, a lockdown critic. It's a rallying cry for sovereignty over health policy, rooted in suspicion of billionaire-driven globalist agendas.