When Humanitarians Kill

Send a text In this episode Charles & Lyn share their feelings about the decision by the Australian Human Rights Commission’s decision to deny an inquiry into how tens of thousands of Australians impacted by tainted blood transfusions and tainted blood treatments could end up being abandoned.  Show links. Former Labor Health minister Neal Blewett says evidence that he is bisexual or gay is “sc...

Send a text As When Humanitarians Kill gathers momentum, Charles and Lyn uncover a disturbing truth: two official inquiries into Australia’s tainted blood disaster, the 1991 HIV inquiry and the 2004 hepatitis C inquiry, were quietly derailed. In this episode, they reveal how a small number of well placed gatecrashers intervened, sabotaging accountability and denying victims justice. Show links ‘An...

Send a text In this episode Charles & Lyn talk about the incredible whistleblowers who have come forward to help expose the criminal coverup of the Infected Blood Scandal Show links Ita Buttrose lies about haemophilia treatments being purified in 1985   https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ddd792_d2874372777a4ef3a2c9342cce36349b~mv2.jpg Ita Buttrose in 1986 telling parents of children with Haemo...

Send 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 wer...

Send 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...

Send a text  In this special edition, Charles and Lyn break down urgent new developments from the legal team representing Infected Blood Australia. They discuss the recent application for an inquiry into the infected blood scandal lodged with the Australian Human Rights Commission and explore what it could mean for the ongoing fight for truth, accountability, and justice. Be part of making justice...

Send 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 refe...

Send a text An interview with Lyn Hatch the mother of Martin, the Aussie kid knowingly provided with tainted blood, who started the legal fight for justice for the Australian victims of the global infected blood scandal.  Support a petition for a Royal Commission of inquiry into the Australian Red Cross/CSL infected blood scandal here https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/registration Watch the s...

Send a text 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...

Send a text 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 th...