When Humanitarians Kill

Charles MacKenzie

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.  

  1. EPISODE 2

    The Infected Blood Scandal is a tale of two former high court judges.

    Send us a text In this episode hosts Charles and Lyn discuss the difference between two former high court judges, Sir Brian Langstaff in the United Kingdom and Justice Michael Kirby of Australia and their different positions on help and justice for victims of tainted blood.  Report of the 1991 New South Wales Parliamentary inquiry into medically acquired HIV (which bizarrely changed its terms of reference half way through and included Justice Michael Kirby as a witness) https://ddd792de-b24d-47fe-8177-91b7438b0894.usrfiles.com/ugd/ddd792_e4c4e0aa29534e45861a6ff5124f961b.pdf The Australian Red Cross concerned about private blood banking https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ddd792_c49c6b6e8e9a429194055b6b70fa279a~mv2.png Martin Hatch legal case judgement https://ddd792de-b24d-47fe-8177-91b7438b0894.usrfiles.com/ugd/ddd792_c0d8656fb5064003b035c03271055bdc.pdf Help fund the legal battle by purchasing a Make Accountability Happen Again cap here https://joinhighadventure.com.au/patriot-cap/ Please support our petition for a Royal Commission of inquiry into the Australian Red Cross/CSL infected blood scandal here https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/registration Cancer is the new target website here https://www.canceristhenewtarget.com/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleAOPRk9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafaoY9KJOYgVbrZtOxun-yMqWjENtTcARgYLleExrzGqMODxrIs4lgV3uD3mA_aem_TgYHwFkvOxDyBFgaPcHxSQ Please support our friends Michelle and Matt and their fight versus cancer and donate here https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-michelle-access-lifesaving-breast-cancer-treatment/cl/s?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_AU&attribution_id=sl%3Ad3b5e68e-6657-4b93-b480-2d162f62ce60&ts=1763895735

    1h 10m
  2. EPISODE 4

    The costs of the Infected Blood Scandal

    Send us a text Imagine your family blindsided by a catastrophe so sudden and devastating that life is split into “before” and “after.” In this powerful episode, Charles and Lyn break open the hidden human costs of public health failures especially tragedies like tainted blood transfusions and contaminated blood treatments. With honesty and urgency, they explore what survivors and families endure long after the headlines fade: the medical, financial, emotional, and generational toll that reshapes every part of life. Whether you’ve lived through a public health disaster or want to understand the real impact behind the statistics, this conversation pulls back the curtain on a crisis that should never have happened and must never happen again. The unanimously agreed recommendations by the Senate of Australia on how recipients of HepC tainted blood should be treated.  21 years later not a single recommendation has been implemented leading to more family break ups and suicides, whilst the health minsters and culpable bureaucrats involved in the failures have made fortunes from the tax payer. https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ddd792_d174655d85034579a3f726b6cd4bf03f~mv2.jpg Australia has committed $48m to HIV for FIJi whilst Australians with HIV from tainted blood treatments are forced to visit food banks to survive. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/fijis-hiv-crisis-and-what-australia-is-doing-to-help/hp1x1osis Please support  a petition for a Royal Commission of inquiry into the Australian Red Cross/CSL Infected blood scandal here https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/registration Help fund the legal case by purchasing a Make Accountability Happen Again cap here https://joinhighadventure.com.au/patriot-cap/

    55 min
  3. EPISODE 5

    Donor D20

    Send us a text In this episode, hosts Charles MacKenzie and Lyn uncover the true story behind a tainted blood donor known only as Code Donor D20 and how decisions made by Australia’s blood bank led to the death of Lyn’s young son, Martin, in 1989. But this is not just one family’s tragedy. Was D20 a tragic anomaly, or evidence of a far wider and hidden practice where thousands of high risk donors were knowingly recruited into the blood supply despite the dangers? This episode challenges the official narrative and asks a question that still echoes today: Was this a single failure or a systemic betrayal? Show links Another scalp taken! The CEO of the regulator on blood John Cahill jumps ship https://www.blood.gov.au/national-blood-authority-chief-executive How governments failed to stop the catastrophic impact of 'tainted blood' on thousands of people https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-governments-failed-to-stop-the-catastrophic-impact-of-tainted-blood-on-thousands-of-people-20160714-gq602j.html Turner Freeman submission to 2004 Senate inquiry exposing the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood’s knowing use of tainted blood donors to https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/_files/ugd/efbdad_8a9b6821be874d798ed8a79e338fa439.pdf This is where the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood used to advertise for blood donors during the AIDS crisis  https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/art6 https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/art5 The ‘Lookback report’ https://ddd792de-b24d-47fe-8177-91b7438b0894.usrfiles.com/ugd/ddd792_ffa5e979b8db4c4790adf814cc5344f8.pdf Sydney Morning Herald story:  Inquiry hears how a Sydney schoolboy was given blood from a heroin addict https://www.smh.com.au/national/inquiry-hears-how-a-sydney-schoolboy-was-given-blood-from-a-heroin-addict-20220105-p59m4o.html Ita Buttrose deceives the public in 1985 incorrectly stating that Haemophilia treatments have been purified. https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ddd792_d2874372777a4ef3a2c9342cce36349b~mv2.jpg Help fund justice and purchase a Make Accountabilty happen again cap here https://joinhighadventure.com.au/patriot-cap/ Support a Royal commission of inquiry into the Australian Red Cross/CSL Infected Blood Scandal here https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/registration

    1h 7m

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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.  

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