The following letter was sent to the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Gillian Trigg, Geoff Hutchinson (ABC Radio 720 Perth) and other journalists and academics at the University of Wollongong, on 6 June 2016. This is the question that I asked at the public vaccination seminar that wasn’t answered by the Telethon panel. Director Telethon Kids… [Read more]
One-Sided Vaccination Seminar at the Telethon Kids Institute (30 May 2016)
On the 30 May the Telethon Kids Institute put on a free public seminar to promote vaccines. The expert panel did not provide any ‘experts’ discussing the risks of vaccination or the reason why the US government describes vaccines as “unavoidably unsafe”. The format and lack of presentation of both sides of the vaccination debate… [Read more]
Journalists Misrepresenting Academic Research (Loussikian K, The Australian, 11 May 2016)
My Response to the article ‘Third Marker gives OK to Anti-Vac Thesis’ (Loussikian K, The Australian 11 May 2016) On the 11 May 2016 the Australian newspaper published yet another negatively framed article by Kylar Loussikian that attempts to disparage my PhD thesis. This time he used information that was released under the Freedom of… [Read more]
Commissioner Tim Wilson and Human Rights in Australia
Tim Wilson, was appointed as Australia’s ‘individual freedom’s’ Commissioner in February 2014. According to an article in the Australian by Chris Merritt (“Faster erosion of rights ‘threat to rule of law’, 15 April 2016) the attack on the individual’s right to justice in Australia, between 2014-2015, has included 95 reversals of the ‘innocent until proven guilty’… [Read more]
Censorship and Misrepresentation in the West Australian Newspaper
On Sunday 20 September many concerned Australians protested the proposed Federal government’s Social Services, ‘No Jab No Pay’ policy, which is now before a Senate Committee for Inquiry. In Western Australia, the media has not reported on the important human rights that are being breached with this proposed policy or the reasons why many concerned Australians… [Read more]
The Australian Government’s New Childcare Package
The Australian government’s recently proposed childcare package has mandated the ‘full’ schedule of childhood vaccines (up to the age of 19) in order for families to receive government welfare benefits of $15,000. This package has removed the right of parents to refuse any of the 12 vaccines recommended for infants if they wish to receive… [Read more]
The West Australian’s publicity for the Freedom of Choice Event Sunday 21 June 2015
Cathy O’Leary, the health news reporter for the West Australian newspaper, has provided publicity for the protest rallies being held around Australia on Sunday 21 June 2015 (p3 West Australian 17 June 2015). However, the information she has provided about the Perth event is incorrect and it has not been provided by a spokesperson for… [Read more]
Biased Reporting on the ABC Breakfast Program
The ABC Breakfast Program On 29 May 2015 ABC journalists, Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland, interviewed the popular cartoonist Michael Leunig about his cartoons advocating freedom of speech and informed consent in vaccination. You dismissed the right of individuals to choose how many vaccines they use by claiming that the ‘science is proven’ and that anti-vaccination arguments… [Read more]
ABC’s Q and A Misinformation on Vaccination
Monday night’s Q and A program (13 April 2015) began with a 10 minute discussion on vaccination with all 4 members of the panel denouncing people who choose not to vaccinate, yet none of the panelist’s were qualified in health or medicine or produced any evidence to support their faith in this procedure. The public was… [Read more]
Choice in Vaccination
In the Weekend West Australian (15 November 2014) the medical editor, Cathy O’Leary, wrote an article titled ‘No-Jab Fears: Alarming rise in parents refusing to vaccinate children‘. In this article it is stated that doctors cannot understand why parents are shunning vaccines. This is an interesting statement when there are numerous professionals and public members… [Read more]
