Conspiracy Theories that Covid is Planned and 5G is to Blame Disclaimer: I am a pro-vaccination; all my kids have had their immunisations and we all recently got the flu
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I have a look at loads of the anti-vax websites and Facebook pages (the ones I can see anyway) nearly every week. Some of them are totally off the planet,
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A report reveals the postcodes where vaccination rates are low — and the data results may surprise you. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has released a report revealing
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Byron Shire has the lowest vaccination rate in Australia, with just half of all five-year-olds being vaccinated in Mullumbimby, and around 60% in nearby Byron Bay. Most people don’t realise
Read MoreThe vaccination debate in Australia is peaking right now, with Malcolm Turnbull recently announcing he plans to make vaccination a must for childcare enrolment. Opinions vary, and researchers want to
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The Federal Government has proposed to ban unvaccinated children from all childcare centres and preschools across Australia. The Sunday Telegraph reported that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull plans to make the laws
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The South Australian government is urging pregnant women to get vaccinated against whooping cough to protect their unborn babies with a spike in the number of children getting the disease. Data
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Over 140,000 families were cut off from getting their childcare benefits for not giving their children vaccinations. Parents of an estimated 142,793 children under the age of five were cut
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All high school senior students in NSW are set to get free vaccine against a new killer strain of meningococcal disease that has spread around the country. Every year 11 and 12
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A Sydney hospital has been recently contacting mothers who gave birth there regarding the administration of ineffective Hepatitis B vaccines to their newborns. Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital admitted that babies born in the hospital
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Despite a successful vaccination program that helped wipe out diphtheria in Australia, two cases of the disease have been diagnosed in Queensland last week. Queensland Health confirmed to the Sunshine Coast
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The Federal Government has revealed that vaccination rates increased since the government’s “No Jab, No Pay policy.” Since the policy was introduced on January 1 this year, almost 190,000 children
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In a world as vast and varied as the one we live in, there are always going to be a variety of opinions and beliefs. But there’s a difference between belief and
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A paediatric doctor has shared a video giving her blunt and honest thoughts about anti-vaxxers. Paediatric doctor Nelu Simonsz, from Melbourne, posted the video to Vimeo to share her opinion about anti-vaxxers,
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A mum has posted horrific images of her baby boy who was struck down by chickenpox as she calls for people to get vaccinated against the illness. Mum Kayley Burke, from Brisbane,
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To jab or not to jab? That used to be the question. It seems that the worryingly low statistics of unvaccinated children in Australia is taking a u-turn and is
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The rise in the anti-vaccination trend is having real effects on the safety of Australian children, it has been revealed by a recently released report. Figures indicate that there are
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Created in partnership with Queensland Government VacciDate Dear Baby, There has been a change going on around you and your friends at daycare that may affect your future, your health
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Childcare benefits and Family Tax Benefit supplements will no longer be paid to parents who fail to immunise their children after the Federal Government’s “No Jab No Pay” laws passed
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Unlike some mothers she knows, Emma Morton will not be hosting a chicken pox party while her 10 month old suffers through the unbearable itch and discomfort of the well-known
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