Legislation to ban unvaccinated children Today, the Opposition Leader in NSW Parliament will be introducing a bill which aims to openly discriminate against your children and mine. He will most likely gain bipartisan support for this piece of legislation which, without any scientific evidence whatsoever, will effectively set up a ghetto for the healthy unvaccinated … Continue reading »
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Australian government departments attack basic freedoms
Unlike almost every other democracy, Australia’s constitution does not include a Bill of Rights, meaning that basic rights which citizens of other nations take for granted such as freedom of speech or communication, may not necessarily be protected under the law. (1) This has allowed certain government departments free reign to act against community groups … Continue reading »
The Australian Vaccination Network Must Go: Sayeth the GovernmentGaia Health
Freedom of speech is being squashed in Australia. If what you have to say runs counter to what mainstream medicine and its lackey, the government, want promulgated, then dissenting views are being suppressed. The Australian Vaccination Network (AVN), an organization that promotes actually thinking about the issue of vaccines, was recently ordered by the Australian … Continue reading »
Government puts boot into the AVN, Democracy and the Truth
As many of you would have seen, the NSW Department of Fair Trading has announced that they want the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) to change its name because of concern from within the community. Yet in their response to the media, the only one who complained was the Australian Medical Association – an industry lobby … Continue reading »
Your letters to WIN TV and Media Watch
As always, your letters are wonderful! If you are not aware what these letters are about, please read the post from earlier today – False Balance or suppression of a scientific debate? – it’s definitely not too late to write in so please get some ideas from these letters and drop a quick line to … Continue reading »
Central NSW Seminar tour – first impressions
A week ago, I came back from a 9-city seminar tour of country NSW. I was very lucky to have had Greg Beattie, author of Fooling Ourselves on the Fundamental Value of Vaccines (this book is available in both hard copy and electronic versions) and Vaccination: A Parent’s Dilemma, join me for 7 of those 9 … Continue reading »
Bullies only win when we let them…
We teach our children when they are very young to stand up to bullies; that if they stand up to them, most bullies will back down because they are cowards and prefer easy targets. We also teach our children that we must always help someone that is being bullied and not just turn the other … Continue reading »
‘Anti Vaxxer’ the new dirty word?
The author of this guest-blog has asked to remain anonymous due to her fear of being targeted by the Australian Skeptics and Stop the AVN. She is the parent of vaccine-damaged children – some of whom are on the autistic spectrum. She found Peter Bowditch’s assaults against families of vaccine-injured children to be incredibly … Continue reading »
Medical Vilification and Bigotry in Australia
Society likes to think that it’s come a long way. We no longer call black people ‘niggers’, gay people ‘poofters’ or Asian people ‘slit eyes’. We’ve gotten beyond all that now. We’re so proud of how advanced we’ve become. But scratch the surface of many people and you can expose their inner bigot. And when … Continue reading »
Health Debate Goes to the Next Level-Doctors Unite to Smash the Anti-Vaccine Group
The latest in a string of attacks against the AVN Below is an article that appeared in today’s Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) newspaper regarding a push by medical lobbyists to force the Australian Vaccination Network to change its name. This article appears on page 15 of the paper but does not seem to be online … Continue reading »
