When Humanitarians Kill is a podcast investigation into the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood’s criminal coverup of Australia’s deadliest medical scandal HIV & HepC contaminated blood.

For the first time ever our audience will be able to listen to interviews from some of the tens of thousands of Australians who are infected & affected by this atrocity and hear how for decades those impacted have been denied help by the Australian Red Cross the managers of Australia’s blood supply.

Each episode will also feature evidence that we will be encouraging the public and any budding ‘internet sleuths’ to help us make sense of together so we can get to the bottom of what really lay behind the worst public health failing in Australian history.

Charles MacKenzie who is the president of Infected Blood Australia, a Not-For-Profit group that supports those that were affected by tainted blood, has spent his entire life campaigning for justice on behalf of the Australian victims of the infected blood scandal.

In this first introductory episode of the investigative series that will expose the crimes of the Australian Red Cross we hear about the scale of the problem and about how Australians can now gather round and help us end the coverup and kick the criminals out of managing the blood supply.

Tony David is rarity in every scene of the word. He has a rare condition, a bleeding disorder called Haemophilia. He then copped tainted blood as a kid. But just like his nickname in the darts world the ‘deadly boomerang’ he made the most astonishing comeback and is the only Australian to win a world darts championship.

But the comebacks don’t stop there, after requiring three liver transplants to stay alive due to the tainted blood he received, Tony is now speaking up about the criminal mistreatment of Australian infected blood victims and their families and is interviewed by Charles MacKenzie.


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Canadian Haemophilia hero James Kreppner https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2009/05/25/james_kreppner_47_patients_rights_activist.html

Tony David Embassy World Championships win
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Tony David blood diary notes of first heat treated factor 9 blood product in 1993
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The Australian Red Cross advertised for blood donors in sexually explicit publications during the AIDS crisis

https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/art6

https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/art5

CSL chair Brian McNamee in the secretive nature of Australia’s blood supply
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Anzac Day remembers Australians and New Zealanders who served and died defending our nations. It’s a day about remembering and honouring heroes. What better day then to have a second interview with Aussie world darts champion and Haemophilia hero Tony David.

In this episode we find out Tony David’s throwing action that took him to global dominance in the sport of darts and we learn about how he had to take on a challenge even bigger than winning a world title or order to survive tainted blood.

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Hepatitis C and the blood supply in Australia 2004 unanimously agreed recommendations for Australians who received Hepatitis C tainted blood.
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In this episode we review the Financial Reviews recent series of ‘puff pieces’ about Australia’s biggest killers CSL and their current chair Brian McNamee whose deadly blood products & ‘clot shots’ have injured and killed thousands.

Despite this, the former public servant Brian McNamee has gone on to make hundreds of millions of dollars from a privatisation of the CSL in 1994 that was really about making a getaway from mass murder and the genocide of haemophiliacs.

Show notes

Financial Review Yolanda Redrup

https://www.afr.com/companies/healthcare-and-fitness/how-csl-went-from-bloated-bureaucracy-to-145b-global-behemoth-20230303-p5cp5y

https://michaelwest.com.au/in-cold-blood-how-privatisation-of-csl-abandoned-the-victims-of-australias-public-health-tragedy/

Link to Petition https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/registration

Link to Go Fund Me https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/registration

Picture of of Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke and minister for Industry & Commerce John Button meeting Klaus Schwab https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ddd792_defcdb6318754c66aae2512eea3715b5~mv2.jpeg

Link to Red Alert: is regulation working properly for CSL imported blood products by Kate Beauchamp https://ddd792de-b24d-47fe-8177-91b7438b0894.usrfiles.com/ugd/ddd792_7711ef8f45c24dc98327b8621b72ebf8.pdf

In this episode: Rick Bolland's life changed in the mid-1980s when he underwent a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Inspired by her son's experience, Rick's mother took the initiative to establish Australia's bone marrow registry, a remarkable endeavor that has saved innumerable lives. Her relentless dedication to this cause earned her the well-deserved recognition of the Order of Australia. However, the coverup over the infected blood scandal knew no boundaries no matter what family you were from. Rick didn’t just get a bone marrow transplant in 1985, he also got tainted blood and what is even more alarming is authorities knew but concealed it.

Show links

https://www.fightcancer.org.au/about-us/our-history

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On this day, exactly one year ago, Infected Blood Australia, the support group for victims of the Infected Blood Scandal, which is our nationals deadliest public health disaster, wrote to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pleading with him to make help available for victims and their affected family members. We didn't even get a reply.

In todays episode Charles MacKenzie President of Infected Blood Australia discusses what comes next.

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Letter from Infected Blood Australia to Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

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Over the last twenty two years Sharon Caris the executive director of the Haemophilia Foundation Australia (HFA) was paid millions of dollars to coverup the genocide of Australian Haemophiliacs and to make sure care was denied survivors and their loved ones.

Sharon Caris announced her retirement in November, possibly timed by her and the HFA wanting to avoid the coming scrutiny over their paid role in the coverup of Infected Blood Scandal.

In this episode we speak about the true role of Sharon Caris and why her retirement is so important.

Show links

The report of Hepatitis C and the Australian blood supply
https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/sites/default/files/1901-2200%20copy%203/1901-2200%20copy%203/WITN3939015%20-%20Hepatitis%20C%20and%20the%20blood%20supply%20in%20Australia%20-%2001%20Jun%202004.pdf

Sharon Caris retires
https://www.haemophilia.org.au/publications/news/postcards-for-sharon

Please support a Royal Commission of inquiry into the Australian Red Cross/CSL infected blood scandal here https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/registration

Please help Charles MacKenzie pay for his medicine so he can stay alive: https://gofund.me/77abc074