Goal:
AUD $210,000
Raised:
AUD $166,089
Campaign funds will be received by Jereth Kok
Please support Jereth in a disciplinary case in a Victorian Tribunal where he could be stripped of his licence to practice medicine because of social media posts. Jereth has been suspended for 5 years awaiting trial. In July, Jereth will finally face a 5-day hearing to defend his (and all Australian medical professionals’) freedom of speech and religious liberty.
Victorian General Practitioner, Jereth Kok, a well-respected and competent medical professional with 15 years’ experience, was suspended by the Victorian Medical Board in 2019 after being targeted by an anonymous complainant. Jereth had never received a single complaint from any of his thousands of patients he had treated during his career. Yet, the Medical Board pursued selective complaints about Jereth’s social media posts discussing his personal beliefs on religious and political matters like abortion, marriage, Covid lockdowns and transgender ideology.
In August 2019, the Medical Board used its emergency powers to suspend Jereth in the “public interest” while they completed their investigation. For almost 5 years, Jereth has been unable to practice medicine and support his family while he has awaited his day in Court.
After five years, Dr Kok will finally have his case heard at a five-day hearing in July. We must ensure that Jereth’s medical license is not cancelled. Jereth is being represented by the Human Rights Law Alliance, and an exceptional barrister team of Stephen Moloney assisted by Owen Wolahan, with expert evidence being provided by top experts on theology, clinical practice in gender medicine and Covid science.
Your support is urgently needed to help Jereth and his team with the expenses of a 5-day trial.
Andrew Thorburn, Israel Folau, Margaret Court, J.K. Rowling and many other wonderful people have all been targeted and lost their jobs for expressing their beliefs on contentious social issues.
For Jereth personally, the last five years have been a trying ordeal. Notwithstanding the fact that as the sole provider for his young family, he was forced to retrain into a new career in order to support them, but he was devastated to be barred from work that he performed diligently and isolated from his patients and colleagues.
“The greatest difficulty at first was the sudden dislocation and uncertainty. Suddenly I had no job, no income, and was cut off from my patients and workplace. I experienced tremendous grief on many occasions, thinking about my many patients who I’d gotten to know so well over many years.”
Jereth has engaged the help of the Human Rights Law Alliance, a not-for-profit law firm specialising in religious freedom cases. HRLA will be working for Jereth on a heavily discounted basis. However experienced barristers and expert witnesses for Jereth’s case are expensive, and essential to run the best defence possible for Jereth and other medical practitioners.
Legal challenges are expensive. The Medical Board has Government funding behind it. Jereth can’t defend himself alone – He needs your help.
Please prayerfully consider this need.
All money raised will be put into a legal trust account to run Jereth’s case. Any leftover funds will be donated to the general work of HRLA.
Thank you.
"Hi, this is Jereth! Thank you for reading my story, and for your prayers and support. It’s important that my story is shared widely, so please share this page with others who can add their support."
I'm looking forward to a God honouring outcome next week. Victory!
My prayers are for you.
Hi Jereth, I have worked with you in the past at Knox Private. I too have faith in Jesus Christ and hold Christian beliefs at home at work everywhere I go. I supported you then, I will support you now.
May the Lord go before you May you have his peace
Praying for you and your family during this time.
Praying for you and your family as you make this stand against AHPRA, and for freedom of speech.
May the good Lord give you the victory you deserve!
July 25th, 2024
Jereth was interviewed by Samuel Hartwich of the Daily Declaration.
Thank you to all the wonderfully generous people who have donated to this campaign so far.
July 15th, 2024
Jereth has done an interview with the Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of Australia. There is a video version and a written version.
One of Jereth's legal team, John Steenhof also gave an interview which can be heard here.
July 9th, 2024
Dr Jereth Kok to Stand Trial Following Five-Year Probe Into His Faith-Based Social Media Posts
Dr Jereth Kok has spent the last half-decade barred from practising family medicine while awaiting a verdict on whether his memes and internet opinions were permissible under Australia’s medical regime.
Former Victorian GP Dr Jereth Kok, who was indefinitely suspended in 2019 for expressing Christian viewpoints online, will stand trial next month following a lengthy, five-year investigation into his memes and other social media posts.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has scheduled...
June 13th, 2024
The Human Rights Law Alliance, who will be defending Jereth, have announced that Jereth's trial date has been set for late July 2024.
March 15th, 2022
March 12th, 2022
Kurt Mahlburg from the Daily Declaration has written an update on Jereth\'s case, which will finally go to trial in 2022 after a 30 month delay.
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