Tumut paramedic John Larter faces a hefty bill after being ordered to pay the legal costs of NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard following a failed attempt to overturn a mandatory vaccination order.
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Last month Mr Larter launched a Supreme Court challenge to the NSW Public Health Order mandating all NSW Health employees receive a COVID-19 vaccine by November 30.
The court heard that Mr Larter was a devout Catholic whose "religious, moral and political views" meant he felt unable to be vaccinated.
While in her judgment the presiding judge Christine Adamson accepted Mr Larter's beliefs were genuinely held, she ruled that Mr Hazzard's public health order was reasonable in the circumstances.
A decision handed down late last week ordered Mr Larter, who raised more than $245,000 via a GoFundMe campaign, to cover the defendants' legal costs, however, an exact figure has not been specified.
"We haven't been told, apparently that's something that gets sorted out between solicitors but our costs were in the order of $300,000," Mr Larter said.
Mr Larter has lodged an appeal and he will likely front the NSW Court of Appeal in the coming months.
"The whole thing is completely ridiculous, none of it makes any sense whatsoever," Mr Larter, who has been stood down from his job as a paramedic, said.
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"I don't believe anyone should have that right taken away from them to decide what they're putting into their bodies," he said.
Mr Larter said he believes the RNA vaccinations are attempts by pharmaceutical companies to lock governments into a cash cow, and he believes those working within the health sector are proof of COVID-19 being a lower risk than what is being made out.
"More people are dying from the insult Brad Hazzard is causing behind the scenes in relation to people not getting their breasts checked through mammograms, not having their teeth and hearts checked, not having prostates checked, not having melanomas checked, not having general health check-ups, people are dying from mental health," he said.
"COVID-19 is probably number 40 on the list when it comes to statistics of death occurrences in Australia.
"More people are dying each week of suicide."
Mr Larter said it is a bigger risk that allied health professionals are being stood down due to refusing to get jabbed and aren't being replaced.
"There have been 11 paramedics in two years infected with COVID-19, while there has been 400,000 patients transported by ambulance," he said.
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