Kate Langbroek went completely off-script on The Project, claiming Australians were “queuing like little bastards” to get the Covid vaccine in an extraordinary speech that left her co-hosts stunned.
Langbroek made the comments as she praised Novak Djokovic for standing firm on his principles in the face of his anti-vaccination stance during Tuesday’s episode of the Channel 10 show.
The tennis superstar was forced to leave Australia just days before she was due to play the Australian Open in January 2022 after entering the country unvaccinated during strict border restrictions due to the pandemic.
“His self-esteem is so strong that when everyone was lining up like little idiots to get an injection of an unknown vaccine, he said, ‘I’m not going to do it,'” Langbroek said.
“The world hated him, but he was steadfast.”
This is not the first time Langbroek has spoken out on this issue. In September 2021, she criticised employers for telling their employees to get vaccinated or risk losing their jobs.
“I am not in favor of vaccines being mandatory for work,” he said during the tense confrontation.
Kate Langbroek (pictured) has hit out at Australians who “queued like little dogs” to get the Covid vaccine during an extraordinary rant about the “unknown vaccine” on The Project
“I’m not anti-vaxxer, but I feel very uncomfortable with forcibly prescribing to people what they have to put into their bodies for it to work.”
A month later, Langbroek told Stellar magazine that her strict upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness had made her critical of mandatory vaccinations.
“I’m surprised that everyone is so militant and happy about it,” he said.
“I don’t want to see people thrown out of their lives. I witnessed this as a child and it is a cruel and effective means of control.”
Langbroek argued that excommunicating people who chose not to get vaccinated from society was comparable to the cruel tactics used to control religious dissidents.
“I find it disgusting that they are being expelled from their lives because they have doubts or indecision about vaccination,” she said.
“If you have the right to go to your workplace and feel protected, doesn’t someone else have the right to decide what they put into their body?”
Langbroek (right) shocked his fellow panelists on The Project after applauding tennis superstar Novak Djokovic for his “firm” stance against the Covid vaccine.
In December 2023, Djokovic (pictured) said he was still scarred by his deportation ahead of his return to Australia for the Australian Open in January this year.
In December 2023, Djokovic said he was still scarred by his deportation ahead of his return to Australia for the Australian Open the following month.
“They basically declared me the villain of the world,” he told CBS.
Djokovic said that while he often encountered hostile crowds during his tennis career, nothing had prepared him for the deportation saga.
He was asked if he had “misread” the mood of the Australian public, who “had a very strong opinion on vaccination” and did not like the perceived “exceptionalism” of the Serbian star.
“It was not up to me to inform anyone,” Djokovic replied.
“I got permission to come to the country and, of course, the situation escalated to the highest levels worldwide.”
Djokovic is a self-confessed vaccine skeptic and has not been vaccinated against Covid.