The following letter has been forwarded to me by one of our members and I felt it was important to share this with you. It was sent to the Sydney Morning Herald after an especially rabid article was published in that paper about a series of talks presented by Dr Tim O’Shea, author of many … Continue reading »
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Wakey, Wakey – You MUST take action now!
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote to you about the fact that human rights legislation was being considered in Parliament. This legislation could potentially block our basic rights to speak about and make decisions regarding our health. (I will be providing an update on this situation tomorrow) Many, many of you wrote letters to … Continue reading »
News flash – Galileo imprisoned – entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts
News Flash: For immediate release Galileo imprisoned – entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts Today, Galileo Galilei was placed under house arrest for questioning what every scientist and learned individual knows to be true – the Earth is at the centre of the universe and the Sun, stars and all other … Continue reading »
False balance or suppression of a scientific debate?
Last night, ABC’s Media Watch program, presented a hatchet job piece called False Balance Leads to Confusion, attacking WIN Television for presenting both sides of the vaccination issue in a recent report on a measles outbreak in NSW. Because the interview contained information from both a medical community spokesperson and myself, representing the Australian Vaccination … 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 »
Health freedom and suppression of information – an interview with Leon Pittard of FairDinkum Radio
The following is a transcript of a radio interview I did a few weeks ago with Fairdinkum radio. You can listen to the original interview here – http://fairdinkumradio.com/resources/AVN%20050512.mp3. Leon: Today, our podcast is featuring Meryl Dorey of the Australian Vaccination Network. Meryl joins us quite regularly to talk about vaccination subjects and issues. And the topic … Continue reading »
There are two sides to the vaccination issue – but only one gets heard
For the second time in as many months, a Herald Sun opinion piece writer has defamed the AVN and every parent who has taken the time and effort to research health issues before making a decision in an article she wrote for their opinion page (this same article ran in many of the Murdoch papers … Continue reading »
Going Underground
During World War II, in the occupied territories of France, the Netherlands and many other countries that had been taken over by the Nazis, an underground movement grew which opposed the dictators and fought to bring back their elected governments. Working from the shadows, they found ways to circumvent the fascist dictatorship that ruled their … Continue reading »
Truth in the media – is it an oxymoron?
As many of you will recall, last week, this blog highlighted a situation where a member of an anti-choice organisation, Ken McLeod, contacted Child Protection (CPS) in West Australia to report the fact that a woman had put up a post on Facebook to say she had exposed her child to Chicken Pox so he … Continue reading »
Change.org does the government’s bidding-blames pertussis death on the unvaccinated
Many of you will probably remember that the website, http://www.getup.org.au, deleted our petition idea about asking the government to stop financially penalising parents who chose not to vaccinate a couple of months ago whilst leaving the petition idea asking for continued penalties submitted by Stop the AVN. At that time, the AVN chose to place … Continue reading »
