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The following posts feature discussions and information on the issue of medical freedom.

Physicians call for moratorium on WA No Jab No Play pending independent review

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As many of you would already know, the Western Australia Department of Health is currently conducting a public consultation regarding the government’s proposed No Jab No Play law.

We were pleasantly surprised to see that two options are under consideration.

  • Option A – Fully implement recently introduced regulations requiring the collection and reporting of immunisation information by child care services, community kindergartens and schools at the time of enrolment, and monitor any impact before changing the status quo.
  • Option B – Amend the Public Health Act 2016 (WA) (‘the Act’) to require, with rare exception, children in WA to be fully vaccinated for age as a condition of enrolment into child care services, community kindergartens and schools, before the compulsory education period.

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Unity in our community

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I feel a need to post here about something very important – even vital – to our cause. It is about how we ourselves can do the work of those who want to destroy us and suppress our valid information through their careless words and attacks on those who are on our side.

A speaker in the US who is passionately concerned with vaccination risks has attacked many others in our community because they were not as ‘anti-vaccine’ (I hate that term and it does not describe most of us, I believe) as she is.

While I feel her frustration that it is taking so long to get our message out to the masses, I believe she has done a great disservice to our entire community with her words…. [Read More]

Public consultation on WA No Jab No Play expected in February

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Protest against the proposed No Jab No Play law

We recently reported on the Western Australia government’s intention to enact a ‘No Jab No Play’ law to prohibit incompletely vaccinated children being enrolled in childcare and early childhood education services.  See WA ‘No Jab No Play’ law announced before COAG policy finalised…. [Read More]

Calling all Victorians to make your vote count this weekend!

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This weekend, Victorians will go to the polls to decide their parliament for the next four years. This state election, to be held on Saturday November 24, presents a real opportunity to elect the Health Australia Party (HAP) into the Victorian parliament…. [Read More]

Victorian paediatrician condemns No Jab No Play

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Pro-vaccine Victorian paediatrician, Dr. Jenny Royle, strongly criticised the Victorian No Jab No Play law during a panel discussion at the 2018 National Immunisation Conference held in Adelaide during June.

I vehemently oppose the Victorian law, No Jab No Play.  […]  I don’t want people to be disadvantaged by strategies to increase immunisation coverage, and the Victorian law, No Jab No Play, disadvantages children and their families.  I think denying a child entry into kindergarten is wrong. I think it’s a disproportionate response to the risk that a fully immunised child has in being in a kindergarten with a very small number of children who aren’t 100% up-to-date with their immunisations, and that risk is disproportionate to the punishment.

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General anaesthesia for vaccination under No Jab No Pay/Play?

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A child undergoing general anaesthesia

Sydney University academic, Associate Professor Julie Leask, made a disturbing revelation at the 2018 National Immunisation Conference held in Adelaide during June.

She claimed that some medically-complex children will require sedation or even general anaesthesia in order to undergo catch-up vaccination, and that if their parents are unwilling to consent, they will be denied family assistance payments.

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Low health literacy associated with high vaccination rates

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The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care reported in 2014 that 60 per cent of adult Australians have low health literacy, arguing that they may not be able to effectively exercise their choice or voice when making healthcare decisions.

The Commission defines individual health literacy as the skills, knowledge, motivation and capacity of a person to access, understand, appraise and apply information to make effective decisions about health and health care and take appropriate action…. [Read More]

There Is Nothing Trendy About Not Vaccinating Your Child

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Not vaccinating your child is not something you take lightly as a parent. The bombardment of vaccine propaganda is everywhere you look and some are scared to even let others know that they don’t vaccinate, because they don’t want their children to face the stigma of going against the crowd.

Going to the doctors can be a battleground where you are berated and belittled for not conforming to the status quo.  The simple act of going to the emergency room because your child broke their arm always starts with the question “Is your child up to date on their immunisations?” and you think to yourself – here we go again!… [Read More]

Allegations that Hennessy’s dept misled court referred to IBAC

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Media Release

Last week we took the unprecedented step of submitting a complaint of corruption to the Victorian Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC).

Our complaint raises serious concerns about the conduct – possibly extending to criminal conduct – of several parties holding high office in Victoria.

The conduct in question relates to certain false and/or misleading submissions made to the Children’s Court in September 2017, by Health Minister Jill Hennessy’s department, as well as public statements made by Families and Children’s Minister, Jenny Mikakos…. [Read More]