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Party Response: The Australian Sex Party

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Sex Party LogoDear Ms Dorey,

I am pleased to respond on behalf of the Australian Sex Party, to your request for information on our position on vaccination issues. I’d like to request that my response be published in full, and unedited, on both your website and social media. Please do share it widely.

The Australian Sex Party believes in individual liberty, and the freedom to make choices regarding your own life. With this freedom, however, comes responsibility. As members of our community, and beneficiaries of the privileges provided by the community, we have an obligation to ensure that exercising our freedom does not put others at undue risk.

No Jab, No Pay. The Federal Government’s No Jab, No Pay measures aim to reduce the spread of preventable disease1. Knowingly and willingly putting one’s own child and others at risk of dangerous and preventable diseases is irresponsible, reckless, and antisocial. The Australian Sex Party does not believe that those who choose not to participate in our collective enterprise of disease prevention should be rewarded with tax benefits or rebates. In Australia, parents are not forced to vaccinate their children. Those who contribute to the broader community’s health by vaccinating their children (or have genuine medical exemptions), receive a contribution from the community in the form of the FTB-A end-of-year supplement, Child Care Benefit, and Child Care Rebate payments. The Australian Sex Party supports this public health measure.

No Jab, No Play. Victoria’s No Jab, No Play laws were introduced to protect public health2. The Australian Sex Party believes that if a parent wishes to use our community’s early childhood education and care services, they should be expected to play their part in protecting the community from preventable diseases. Those who choose to endanger the health of others by not vaccinating their children should not be welcome to do so in an early childhood care setting.

The right of Australian citizens to make free and informed health choices for their families without financial penalty or discrimination. The Australian Sex Party supports the right of Australian citizens (and others) to make free and informed health choices for their families. The Party does not, however, believe that going against the best scientific information available, represents an informed health choice. The anti-vaccination movement encourages parents to “do your own research”, however doing “research” by reading web-pages is not comparable to actual research done by scientists who work hard to protect us all from dangerous and debilitating disease. The Australian Sex Party rejects the insinuation that expecting all parents to participate in preventing diseases is a form of discrimination.

The safety and efficacy of vaccination is not an area of scientific controversy3. The claim that governments and scientists are all conspiring to mislead us for some nefarious purpose is absurd and irresponsible. The dangers of complications from vaccines are much lower than the dangers posed by childhood diseases such as measles4. The claims of the anti-vaccination movement have been thoroughly debunked5. Choosing not to vaccinate your children amounts to medical neglect; this is a serious ethical issue. Whilst it can be tempting to imagine that we parents have access to some special kind of knowledge that somehow eludes the scientific community, it’s just not so. We at the Australian Sex Party would like to encourage parents who are questioning what’s right for their children, to follow the advice of the scientific and medical communities, rather than charlatans and conspiracy-theorists.

 

References

  1.      https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubp/rp/BudgetReview201516/Vaccination
  2.      https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/public-health/immunisation/vaccine-safety-myths-facts
  3.      https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/no-jab-no-pay/
  4.      https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/public-health/immunisation/vaccination-children/no-jab-no-play/frequently-asked-questions
  5. https://violentmetaphors.com/2014/03/25/parents-you-are-being-lied-to/

Regards,

Darren Austin

Senior Policy Advisor

Australian Sex Party

sexparty.org.au

Party Response: Non-Custodial Parents Party

By AVN admin 1 Comment

Response from the Deputy Registered Officer:
Non-Custodial Parents Party
Our party is really a one issue based political party.
However, we do have sympathy for your issue.
From our web-site
The Aim of the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting)  is to:
a. Minimise government interference in decisions that affect separated families.
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b. Maximise the initiative of individual parents to make those decisions.
The parents and the guardians of their children are the best people to determine what is the right thing to do for their children – not someone from either the Government or the Family Court.
I would suggest that this statement would also correlate with your aims.
Wishing you the best of luck.

Party Response: voteflux.org

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Response from the deputy leader of voteflux.org:

Flux PartyFlux isn’t a party like most others. We don’t have any policies outside of parliament (and thus have no direct policies on vaccines). The purpose of Flux is to introduce better decision making systems into Parliament.
Flux is a platform to connect people and communities to the real political power they need to help Australia have the best policy we can. We use an internal voting system available to all Australian voters, and our Senators represent this vote as accurately as possible in parliament.
Flux uses a system called Issue Based Direct Democracy. The idea is that we let Australians self-organise around the issues they feel most passionately about. Voters can have more of a say in some issues by giving up the ability to have a say in others.
To see what this means for the AVN, let me give you an example showing the difference between direct democracy and issue based direct democracy:
Under a direct democratic system, your tens of thousands of members would only have the same number of votes, a small proportion of all votes.
Under issue based direct democracy, if your members wanted to forgo voting on some issues, they could move their ‘political capital’ over to more important issues, such as those around vaccines. This means their voices could be amplified, and instead of having tens of thousands of votes they could have hundreds of thousands (or more).
Flux is in early stages right now, but if we’re successful in the upcoming election we’ll be in a position to empower communities like the AVN to have more of a say on the things that matter to you.
Please let me know if you’d like more information.
Follow up email from the deputy leader:
We’re producing an explainer video currently that goes a long way to making it easier to understand (visuals really help!). If you’d like I can send that through to you when it’s done? That should only be in a day or two.

We’re hoping to help empower communities like the AVN in the future. Particularly, we’d like regular voters to be able to choose organisations like yours to represent them instead of regular old politicians. Leading up to the election, we’re planning on approaching a lot of communities to give them the same pitch: real political power. To make this as easy as possible on our end (we’re a small dedicated team) we’re going to put together packs, particularly for this purpose, so I’ll send that through when I can. It’ll have a lot more detail as to how Flux and the AVN can work together.

Party Response: The 21st Century Australia Party

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Correspondence from the Party founder (9/5/16)

We will releas21st-century-party-logo-sml4e our 2016 Policy Document later this week
One of the policies is to stop mandatory vaccination and for a Government investigation into the danger of current vaccines
Also see our news site:
We focus heavily on the vaccination debate and you will find many  articles here re the vaccination debate
The Newsite has just overtaken Fairfax Media’s AFR Newsite with over 700,000 readers for month of March
We appreciate anyone contributing to the vaccine debate as it is a very important issue

The 21st Century Australia Party’s policy paper will be published shortly.

It will be published at Www.anrnews.com
And also at our party site www.21stcenturyaustralia.com.au

Make your vote count on July 2nd!

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Vote for FreedomNow that the date of the next Federal Election has been confirmed at July 2nd, 2016, the AVN would like to ask everyone reading this to carefully consider who they will – and will not – support in the upcoming election.

Please note that the AVN’s Code of Ethics specifically prohibits our organisation from promoting any political views. We are perfectly within our rights, however, to inform the public of the policies and viewpoints of the parties that will be standing candidates for public office.

Politicians are our representatives; they are our employees (in their roles as public servants). They are supposed to be our voice in Parliament. If they do not represent our views, treat us with disrespect or threaten to take away the rights our families have come to expect as citizens of a democratic nation, it is not only our right, but our DUTY to oppose their election…. [Read More]

Data-cleaning of the ACIR will see the federal government declare ‘No Jab No Pay’ a success

By AVN admin

On the eve of the release of the latest vaccination coverage statistics for 2016 – the first since commencement of ‘No Jab No Pay’ – it’s timely to reflect on a significant revelation which emerged during the Senate inquiry into the law.

Last year represented a watershed in vaccine policy and law in Australia.  For the first time, the Commonwealth parliament enacted a law mandating vaccination for receipt of childcare subsidies and Family Tax Benefit A supplement.  In addition, two states enacted so-called ‘No Jab No Play’ laws, mandating vaccination for enrolment in childcare in the case of Victoria, and providing childcare operators the option of refusing enrolment to unvaccinated children in the case of Queensland.

The claimed imperative for these laws was built on three shaky foundations:… [Read More]

Another heartbreaking story of a parent forced to make a drastic decision

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There are several other parent’s impact statements which were going to be published tonight, but we felt it important that this story, below, be on its own. It tells a very important tale – of what can happen when governments set out to abuse and discriminate against their own citizens.

Whilst vaccinations, in and of themselves, are known to cause death and permanent injury, the government, in conjunction with the media and the pharmaceutical industry, is leading to the deaths of an unknown number of children and the permanent injury of entire families through its policies. We MUST stand together for the sake of all Australians.

Baby Angel

How this vaccination legislation has impacted me, both physically and psychologically.

“Women as oppressed people act out of necessity, not out of choice.”

Today, I buried the remains of my baby that never was, which had begun growing inside of me 7 short weeks ago…. [Read More]

Parents are taking desperate measures because of government discrimination

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Trapped Behind Glass

Subject: How NJNP affects our family

We parent three young children – 7, 4 and 2 – all of whom are intentionally not up to date on their vaccinations. This is an educated and deliberate choice.

With this new law coming into play, our family is seriously considering taking my four year old out of Kindy as the full fees will be more than we could afford on our wages. (We could put her into a local private primary school for LESS than I would be paying!)
I would have to stop working and keep her home with me. Which would be less stimulating for her and would have less societal contribution from me. I don’t understand how this is beneficial to our country in the long term?  I don’t see how this law benefits society in the big picture. I also believe this law is very discriminatory…. [Read More]

Impact statements – the adverse effects of Government Bigotry

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To read the other pages of parent’s impact statements, please click the links below:

https://avn.org.au/…/03/suffering-continues-government-care/

https://avn.org.au/no-jab-n…/families-suffering-share-story/

https://avn.org.au/2016/03/stories-families-adversely-affected-no-jab-no-payplay/

https://avn.org.au/2016/03/suffering-continues-stories/

Children behind chain link fence

I am writing to share my story about how No Jab No Pay and No Jab No Play have affected the lives of my family.

In 2015 my family and I (husband, self and two daughters aged 3 and 4) lived in our family home on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He worked full time as a teacher and I worked from home as a business mentor/wed designer.

Upon learning about the new legislation in late 2015 I attempted to find additional work in our local area (Sunshine Coast) to cover the increased cost of childcare for my two daughters who were in care 2-3 days per week.  The only work I was able to find did not pay enough to cover Childcare fees, so we had to find an alternative solution…. [Read More]