Action alert: NSW Parliament to pass legislation suppressing health rights-letters urgently needed!

May 04, 2013

In what can only be described as one of the worst cases of sour grapes since Aesop first wrote the tale, the Health Care Complaints Commission, with the full cooperation of the NSW Parliament, is looking at making themselves judge, jury and executioner when it comes to those of us who are critical of vaccinations and others who choose to practice natural medicine.

You can read the AVN's recent newsletter about this situation by clicking here. Be sure to also read the article quoted below from the Medical Observer. This demonstrates clearly that our win in the Supreme Court against the HCCC was the reason for this push to give that body these incredible new powers whereby they do not even need to prove that a person has harmed another in order to cite them. All it will take is for someone to express views contrary to the HCCC or government policy and action will be taken against them.

Under the article from the Medical Observer are some of the many letters written by AVN members to members of Parliament yesterday. Many, many more are needed! If you believe that the HCCC should be protecting Australians from dangerous medical practitioners, rather than protecting medical practitioners from criticism or open debate, then please take 5 minutes to write your letters.

You can get the contact details for all NSW Assembly members by clicking here and you can get the contact details for all members of the legislative council by clicking here.

In addition to contacting your own member of parliament, please be sure to call both the NSW Health Minister, Jillian Skinner - (02) 9228 5229 and the Shadow Health Minister, Andrew MacDonald - (02) 9608 8991.

Be sure to send us a copy of your emails and if you make these phone calls, drop us a quick line as well letting us know when the contact was made and who was called. The email address to use is info@avn.org.au

Oh and one last thing - you do NOT have to live in NSW to write and call - parties are national. If you live in another state, just contact the NSW Minister and Shadow Ministers for Health and let them know that as a result of their actions, you will not be voting for their party in your own state or nationally.

Lastly, the AVN would also appreciate a $5 donation from everyone who supports what we are trying to do - protecting the health rights of every Australian. To make a donation, please click here and if you would like to become a member of our organsiation, you can do so by clicking here.

Thanks to everyone for letting our elected representatives know that you expect them to protect our rights!

http://www.medicalobserver.com.au/news/hccc-power-boosted-after-antivax-feud?
HCCC power boosted after anti-vax feud
THE NSW Health Care Complaints Commission’s (HCCC) bitter feud with anti-vaccine lobbyists has propelled the state government to dramatically increase the body’s powers, enabling it to launch practitioner investigations without a patient complaint.
Until now the HCCC has been constrained by laws that say it can only investigate a practitioner if he or she is subject to a patient complaint.
Last year the Supreme Court upheld the Australian Vaccination Network’s (AVN) claim against the commission, saying its actions against the group were “not within the jurisdiction of the HCCC”.
Introducing the changes to parliament, NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner said the judgement in AVN’s favour created “significant concern” as it meant the HCCC could not investigate a practitioner or group without a complaint even “if the matter raises a real likelihood of impacting on public health or safety”.
The change would mean that “if a health service provider is acting in a way that is likely to affect the clinical management or care of a client, even if there is no identified client who has been affected, then the HCCC will have jurisdiction to investigate a complaint against the health service provider,” Ms Skinner said.
The changes, which would bring the HCCC into line with the Medical Board of Australia’s existing “own motion” investigation powers, would also include new laws letting the HCCC inform a practitioner’s employer about an investigation as soon as it begins.
The state’s opposition health spokesman, Dr Andrew McDonald, told MO he had backed the changes in light of the AVN decision, provided they did not mean employers could sack practitioners simply for being under investigation.
“The own motion stuff had to happen. Immunisation is dependent on herd immunity,” he said.
Friends of Science in Medicine founder Emeritus Professor John Dwyer said the HCCC especially needed powers to investigate without a patient complaint since – unlike the medical board – its jurisdiction also covered unregistered practitioners.
“They are actually responsible for protecting the public from unregistered practitioners as well as investigating complaints against doctors. It’s been a bit of a toothless tiger and this sounds like a step in the right direction,” he said.
“They can be proactive but they also need to be conscious of a need to respond to complaints from doctors and the public about practices that are potentially dangerous and haven’t necessarily affected the individual who’s complaining.”
AMA president Dr Steve Hambleton supported bringing the HCCC’s powers into line with the medical board’s but urged caution.
“I’m comfortable if it’s uniform, but we need to work out what the implications are too,” he said.
The HCCC had ordered AVN to post a warning on its website about its claims but last year the NSW Supreme Court ruled that the commission had overstepped its powers as AVN’s lobbying did not affect the “clinical management or care of an individual patient”.
The HCCC declined to comment on the changes.

Dear Minister Skinner,

I am writing to express my complete opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013.

I am a mother of vaccine injured children and a member of the Australian Vaccination Network, I cannot even begin to describe the outrage that I felt when I heard the way that elected officials of parliament could refer to people such as myself as "wing nuts", "flat earthers" or say that I am responsible for the potential manslaughter or death of children. How dare they? Do they know any of the reasons that thousands of Australians became members of the AVN, do they know or even care about the children of some of these people that have been hurt by vaccines? Are these people who could talk about me and my friends and family in such a despicable and contemptuous way acting as the voice of the people? I think not!

It is beyond belief how our government can think it is a good thing to persecute a minority group like the AVN, especially one that is the advocate and voice for families with vaccine injured children. Does the government persecute any other minority groups, or is it just families with vaccine injured children that are beneath the government's contempt?

The other objection I have against this bill, is just how far reaching the wording is, "likely to affect a person's care", what in the world happened to informed consent!?! Do you honestly think people are so incompetent that they need the government to come in and decide what they are allowed to be told or what treatments they are allowed to choose? People go to health practitioners of their own choosing, why would they need the government to intervene in their health choices? If they have been hurt or have a complaint about a practitioner that they feel has treated them improperly then that is a different matter but the government should not be able to be used by skeptic antagonists who have an agenda to destroy alternative health practitioners just because they think it "likely" to affect a person's care. If anyone shares information with another person they have the likelihood of being able to affect a person's care, this bill is a bad idea whichever way you look at it, and it is no wonder that the AMA wants to be exempt from it.

Please do the right thing and do not amend the health legislation bill, because if this bill goes through I will definitely not vote for any party that helps put it through and I will make sure that I tell everyone I know to do the same.

Kind regards

Dear Dr MacDonald,

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 for the following reasons:

The debate around the legislation appears to acknowledge that this new bill is being moved to overcome the red-face of the HCCC in their abuse of process against the Australian Vaccination Network.

The HCCC was created to protect the public (upon complaint by an individual) against inappropriate or dangerous medical practice; now this new legislation is supported by the AMA, but only if their members are excluded...doesn't this go against the original brief of the HCCC? How many complaints made to the HCCC under the legitimate processes by which they are currently empowered to launch an enquiry have not been actioned? The continued attempts to shut down the AVN despite numerous legal wins against government agencies is sad, at best, and abuse of process at worst. When will you seek to have the government STOP spending taxpayers funds on demonising this one group.

How is it that one small membership-run organisation is such a threat...an organisation that is providing information that is readily available around the world from a great many scientists, medical doctors, and yes, non-medical informed (and in some cases, self-educated) consumer/patient advocates or their organisations?

It would appear that health department advisors who are championing the need to shut down the AVN are doing so because they can not (or will not) credibly reply to any of the evidence or claims put to them. They instead argue they should not have to respond, because they are RIGHT. Or they belittle and marginalise what are very legitimate concerns (if they weren't legitimate, the AVN and other like organisations just couldn't develop the traction with the general public that they currently have!). The department seems to act with the imperative that anything that runs against policy is not fit for public consumption. BIG problem here!

Government policy in the area of vaccination is bereft of scientific data supporting efficacy - the evidence you do have comes from very poorly designed trials that sometimes go for 6 weeks at best; and safety data is woefully inadequate given the assumption by most medical doctors that the practice is safe, combined with the voluntary nature of reporting adverse events and the processes involved in TGA approval of new vaccines. It is well-known and reported that the CDC in the USA suggest adverse events are under-reported anywhere from 90-99%, yet there is no similar acknowledgement or attempt to research this phenomenon here in Australia.

Please know that I am a health practitioner, who has studied the issue in great depth and I expect the right to inform my clients and others of the information I have learned. Especially when I have the data and articles from reputable scientific journals that continue to question and debate this issue. It is not going away. We have this strange little idea called free speech that is getting dangerously close to being severely impinged upon!

I am not a resident of NSW, but I have a passionate opinion regarding this issue and I will take my complaints to the ballot box in my state and federal polls. I hope to have a response to my concerns and if you are privy to the information, an outline of any other reasons the HCCC may be claiming that they need these new powers.

Currently the scare-mongering about the potential harm the 'information' that the AVN provides is not any evidence to justify the continued attempts to shut them down.

Thanking you in advance for reading this correspondence.

Dear Ms. Skinner,

I am writing to voice my opposition to the Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013. I feel it is becoming very scary the way the government and the medical profession is taking more and more charge over peoples’ individual rights to choose what they do to their bodies and the bodies of their children. I thought we lived in a free country where this sort of oppression was forbidden, certainly a way of life that was fought for by our troops during the world wars. I watched a programme last night on the Today Tonight Show regarding the severe side effects of the contraception pill Yasmin, causing death in many cases. Natural therapies have been removed from sale and a hue and cry raised for only minor reactions such as nausea. This drug is still freely prescribed and I just found out my daughter has been prescribed it. She was never made aware of the potential risks by her doctor and yet this sort of thing is never challenged. Doctors have incredible power over peoples’ lives and yet the AMA, who is backing this new legislation, want doctors to be exempt. It is so obvious that this is yet another attempt to shut down natural therapies for good.

People are individual and have different reaction to medications. I know of many who have experienced mild to severe reactions to a vaccine, for example, so surely it should be a choice whether you wish to take the risk of such a reaction or not. If the vaccines work as they are supposed to, the vaccinated are not at risk of disease as they are protected, so the unvaccinated person is therefore not endangering anyone but themselves. I have read some information provided by the AVN an organisation that is being heavily targeted at the moment. Their attackers say that the AVN provides misinformation and lies. I would like them to back this up. What are the lies? I want specifics. I need to know the truth, so before this organisation is silenced, I would think that the allegations against them need to be proven.

I think introducing this legislation will spell the end to the freedoms enjoyed by Australians and because of this I am very frightened.

Regards,

Dear Minister Skinner,

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 for the following reasons:

It suppresses my right to learn and discuss the issue of vaccination without fear of discrimination and penalty;

I have a right to choose the preferred health care options for myself and my family.

Yours Sincerely,

Dear Premier,

I believe that the Health Legislation Amendment Bill goes against constituents rights for informed medical consent. You should be aware that the aim for global pharmaceutical companies is for increasing profits. Many constituents have become aware that the effectiveness and risks of western medicine are selectively published and marketed. If you do not question the benefits and risks of medicine, including vaccination, then you have not been speaking to enough people. If you speak to GPs, who earn 10% of their income from vaccination alone, you will just get the sales pitch that they got from the company sales representative.

I have had an adverse vaccination reaction and so have my friends and it is no small thing. I also asked the Victorian Health Department to convince me of the benefits of childhood vaccination and they could not dispute my conclusion that their research papers actually showed no benefit in having vaccination to the individual or to populations.

We will probably never know how many people have become disabled due to vaccination in childhood. I heard many years ago that the Royal Melbourne Hospital knew the Triple Antigen caused a number of reactions including death. Of course the taxpayer is left with the bill (increase the Medicare Levy) because government does not make the pharmaceutical companies liable for damages that they caused.

I realise that science is misrepresented by those who are motivated by greed not truth and I believe you must know that too or you are getting some awfully biased advice. Please allow open dialogue about western medicine or you are effectively running a communist state not a democracy. Please do not put the "fox in charge of the hen house".

The proposed legislation shows that big business is running government. Is this the sort of legacy that you honestly want for the people of NSW?

Please do not put profits before people.

Yours sincerely,

Dear Andrew MacDonald,

RE: Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

I oppose this legislation because it suppresses my right to learn and discuss the issue of vaccination without fear of discrimination and penalty. I want the right to use whatever methods I choose to be the best for my family, at any time I choose. Choice is human right and I oppose any legislation that takes that right away from me.

The HCCC was specifically set up to protect health consumers from dangerous and negligent medical practitioners. Instead, it might appear that it will be used for the purpose of protecting dangerous and negligent practitioners from complaints by health consumers - in my book this is not and never will be ok. Each individual has the right to make their own health decision and this right should never be taken away or jeopardised but it seems that elected representatives think they can take away this right with this bill.

Information does not kill - information is what the government is required by law to give us freely and without prejudice. If anyone is wilful and negligent, it is those who are willing to pass legislation governing our right to communicate and inform each other. This is not the way in which a democratically-constituted body should act. I am making sure you are aware of that fact.

I want you to oppose the Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013. I want you to know that I will not be voting for any member of parliament or their party if they choose to support such undemocratic and tyrannical legislation.

Dear Dr MacDonald,

I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 for the following reasons:

I do not live in NSW, but I have grave fears about any loss of our personal freedom. I fear that any Bill in any state that erodes freedom will or may have a flow-on effect. Surely it is our right to choose whether we go to a doctor or a complementary medicine practitioner. Also, surely it is our right to know if there are adverse effects from any medical procedure.

I am assuming that the recent case against the AVN is behind this Bill. If so, I would like to say that I cannot see that the AVN is doing anything other than informing people who are interested that there can be adverse effects with vaccination. My husband’s sister married my brother, so of course our children are very closely related. My brother has a daughter who is grand mal epileptic and has been since the age of seven months. There is a strong possibility that the cause was vaccination. When, in 1977, I had a baby, I told my doctor about her, and he said absolutely I was not to give her Whooping Cough vaccine. If this bill is passed, would he then be liable for prosecution for giving such advice?

I am sixty-seven years old and in very good health. I attribute this in large part to eating wholesome food for a very long time, taking such things as Vitamin C and minerals, and not constantly running to a doctor for tests to see if I have some common illness lurking in my body. Please consider the rights of people like me who choose to take control of their own health, and do not allow this Bill to be passed.

Thank you for your time,

To: Louise Markus. Dear Louise,

I am writing to you about the Health Legislation Admendment 2013. I oppose this legislation because it suppresses my right to learn and discuss the issue of vaccination without fear of discrimination and penalty.

I want YOU to oppose the Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013.

I will NOT be voting for any member of parliament or their party if they choose to support such undemocratic and tyrannical legislation.

Sincerely

Dr JO

Dear Dr MacDonald,

It has been brought to my attention that the HCCC are currently requesting that legislation be passed in NSW Parliament in the form of the Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013. I believe that this will mean that no longer will the HCCC be restricted to investigate complaints brought by health consumers (ME!) AGAINST practitioners whose treatments adversely affect them personally. This new amendment will mean that the HCCC themselves will be able to bring about action if they feel it is warranted. Also that any member of the public can complain about anyone else, despite no evidence of harm or evidence of communication between the two and thus the HCCC will have power to act. The AMA is supporting this legislation but is requesting that medical doctors be exempted.

So, the very body that the HCCC was set up to protect health consumers from, will now be exempt and instead the HCCC will target innocent people taking care of their own health interests as many of us now do, very successfully

If passed, this legislation will be a licence for every nuisance skeptic to file complaints against natural health practitioners, their next door neighbour who may use natural therapies and anyone else whose health opinion they disagree with

No one has a right to control my health choices.

My oldest child suffered serious adverse reactions to her first immunisations in 1992 and fortunately I was lucky to find a GP that supported and helped me with guiding her recovery. The thought that he would not be able to do this for others is devastating. I know he has helped many other children especially after adverse reactions, where no other GP or specialist has.

The bottom line is that I will not be voting for any member of parliament or for your party in Victoria if you choose to support such undemocratic and tyrannical legislation.

Yours sincerely

Dear Mr Barilaro,

I am writing to you about my concerns regarding the HCCC amendment bill 2013. This bill appears to create the possibility of frivolous complaints against health care practitioners by any party, not just those who have been personally affected by such a practitioner. This bill is clearly open to abuse and may create an environment of baseless complaints being made against professional women and men, working to improve the health and knowledge of their clients and the wider community.

It concerns me that people with alternative view points in regards to health will be open to harassment by this bill. As someone who uses alternative health therapies I would like to support those practitioners who have helped me understand how to lead a healthy lifestyle. As a result, I and my family of 6 rarely see conventional doctors - a saving for medicare among other things.

Please take on board my concerns regarding this bill. I believe strongly that this bill is divisive of health care professionals and will shut down legitimate information and debate about health issues. This bill is clearly open to misuse. I will not be voting for any members of parliament who choose to support this bill.

Regards,

Dear Member,

I am floored by the new Bill that is being considered and probably being pushed to go through.

Please help protect people to keep their freedom intact; to choose their own healthcare. Chinese medicine and other forms of health support will be under attack, this is of grave concern for all of us, should you not act to preserve the integrity of individual freedom.

What would be next? A ban on natural supplements? And this would of course be under the guise of 'health and safety'.

It is your duty of care to protect the people against big business interests. Please help your children and their children to live in freedom and peace.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs PS

Dear Minister Skinner,

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 for the following reasons:

It suppresses my right to learn and discuss the issue of vaccination without fear of discrimination and penalty;

I have a right to choose the preferred health care options for myself and my family.

Yours Sincerely,

Dear Minister Skinner,

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 for the following reasons:

1.We "supposedly" live in a society that welcomes Free Speech and the Right to take opposing ideas to others, however this Bill will remove those Rights and allow the HCCC to be biased in who they want to pursue.

No doubt they have been inappropriate in their lost case against the AVN , and wish to use "power through bad legislation" to get their way.

2. This legislation will allow any "Sceptic" to take aim at any individual or organisation that has a different viewpoint.

3. The most distressing part is that the AMA is in support of this legislation, but would like medical practitioners exempt.

How does that protect the Public?

I Look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Dr. DK

Re Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

I am contacting you about the Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 before the parliament. I am trying to grapple to gain some understanding of the implications of such changes and find it to be a strange piece of legislation trying to be introduced by those who do not respect the right of choice in a demogratic society, merely because they don’t agree.

Myself as a mother of 6, has had to battle with some very tough decisions in regard to the health and wellbeing of my children, they have been decisions my husband and I have agonised over and reached over some time, after one of our children suffered an adverse reaction. To that I might add, a reaction, still ongoing, that was validated by a 'real' doctor.

Our opinions may change, we are always reading new research as it becomes available to us from all doctrines, for and against all kinds of treatments but are deeply offended at the statements made by Mr Clayton Barr, the member for Hornsby, in regards to the Australian Vaccination Network. People have their views and no one has the right to criticise the decisions we make as parents.

This piece of legislation is dangerous and could pave the way for people with attitudes like Mr Barr to continue their maligned scare mongering with their own form of misinformation, that of ignorance and disrespect. We have enough of that already in our society.

Please consider the implications of such legislation.

Thank You

Dear Minister Skinner,

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013. In your attempt to shut up groups which you do not agree with you are setting a dangerous precedence. Freedom of speech and information is too important to be played with by politicians. You may disagree vehemently with the views of groups such as the AVN but you have no right to have them silenced. We the people have the right to hear a variety of views and we have the ability to make up our own minds based on all the information available. I will be watching with interest.

Dear Minister Skinner,

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013.

I would like to seek information on the vaccination issue from many sources, & not have the government decide which sources they deem appropriate. That is for me to decide.

If the Bill were to be passed this would amount to censorship & we would be another step closer to a Police State.

Parliament vetoed internet legislation for a similar reason. Please do not allow this to happen.

My electoral vote will be decided on how this Bill proceeds.

Regards

JL Retired ICU Nurse & mother to a child who had severe vaccine reactions.

Dear Minister Skinner,

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 for the following reasons:

I believe everyone should be entitled to seek information and ALL information possible when it comes to vaccinations or any other product we put into our bodies or our children's bodies. I vehemently oppose this legislation as it prevents my ability to discuss and learn about all aspects of vaccination without fear of discrimination, incrimination and retribution.

Wasn't the HCCC specifically set up to protect consumers from dangerous and negligent medical practitioners? Since when does the likes of the AVN fall under the banner of medical practitioner?

I have used and still do use a multitude of natural health practitioners from chinese herbalist, chiropractor, naturopath, kinesiologist, homeopath and bowen therapist, as do many of my friends. It is a rare occasion that I need to use the services of a doctor. In fact a vast number of people I know have sought relief from "natural practitioners" subsequent to relentless failed treatments from "western medical doctors" and had 100% success with these natural treatments. I believe in both areas of treatment when required and believe that it should be my personal choice after I have carried out my research in the particular area concerned. It should not be up to others to decide a particular persons choice when it comes to medical treatment or any other natural treatment.

Generally speaking people that use natural therapies and choose not to vaccinate are people that are highly educated, eat healthily, grow their own food, take good care of themselves and the environment. We are not a drain on medicare as we look after ourselves and the treatments we choose are not funded by medicare and in many cases not even by private health funds. I find it absolutely astounding that as a minority group there is so much media attention being focused on people that choose not to vaccinate through making an informed choice. Honestly do you think that the AVN is the sole source for people to attain this information in our technologically advanced world?

One has to question whether this legislation is the HCCC's way of retaliating against the AVN after their recent win in the supreme court, in mine and many others opinion this is bullying and something that is totally unacceptable in our society today so why is it being entertained in the legal system? It is abundantly obvious that the HCCC and the AMA are intimidated by freedom of information and the increasing number of people that are researching what they pump into their own and their children's bodies and this constant barrage of legal proceedings is a way of wearing the AVN down. It is a shame that government resources are not used responsibly, for example the TGA banning the sale of Yaz or Yasmin contraceptive pill when it has caused a lot of deaths in the US, however our government continues to allow this to be sold - now this is what the HCCC should be concentrating their efforts on! As well as the growing number of obese people that will be a massive strain on our medical system and the tax payer dollar but I don't see the HCCC trying to implement draconian laws against processed or fast foods. I take great objection to my tax dollars being spent on the implementation of such outrageous legislation. Why don't the government collate statistical information on numbers of vaccinated population that contract one of the illnesses / diseases that they have been vaccinated against? If this information was collected then it would give a true indication of whether vaccines are successful or not. I know for a fact that if you see a doctor you are not even asked. I had whooping cough 6 years ago, I had received the vaccine the year prior but was never asked if I had been vaccinated, later when I questioned my GP I was advised that they only report the illness and not whether the person had been vaccinated and whether that vaccination was up to date. So the information collected on such illnesses is useless, why bother collecting it in the first place.

I will vote against any political party that chooses to introduce or support such draconian laws. I will support my right to be informed and make my own choices that I see fit for my family.

Yours sincerely

Dear Minister Skinner

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 for the following reasons:

1. It violates the basic freedom of expression that separates civilised society from tyrannical regimes

2. It suppresses my right to learn about and discuss the issues of vaccination without fear of discrimination and penalty

3. It discriminates on the basis of Medical Paradigms and health choices

Allowing the HCCC to bring about actions in the absence of a complaint or evidence of harm is nothing short of tyranny. This is especially so if the AMA's request for exemption for Medical Doctors is enacted. In fact it is absurd given the accepted statistics of iatrogenic harm caused by the modern medical establishment.

I will be sure to follow your actions in regard to this bill, and will not be voting for your party should support for this bill be evident

Sincerely

Dear Dr MacDonald,

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 for the following reasons:

I believe it suppresses my right to be informed and debate health matters. I believe that it affects my right to make informed health decisions without fear of discrimination or penalty.

I demand to maintain the right to obtain and discuss information of my choice and that which may be controversial and not in line with government or AMA policy. This is a democratic country not a fascist one

I believe the AMA and pharmaceutical companies are having too much influence on government policies. Giving too much power to individual governing bodies leads to unfair discrimination if it is not in line with government policies and corporate agendas. If the products and services were so good why do we need to be coerced into medical procedures and medication? Western medicine is not the only paradigm of health

Why does the AMA support this legislation but wish to be exempt from it?

I will not vote for any party that does not support democracy and freedom of choice.

My Health My Choice!

Summary: Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 seeks to shutdown debate over the efficacy and safety of Pharmaceutical Medical practices – the existing narrative of medicine, and eliminate over time, alternatives that citizens are entitled to make in the determination of their health for themselves and families.  The Australian Vaccination Network provides valid information and grounds for caution in addition to the Product Information Sheets (PIS) provided with vaccines. PIS documents, by law, outline reactions, dangers and contents of vaccines.  Through continued debate and the publication of safety concerns the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended 'the removal of Thimerasol (ethylmecury) as a precaution'.  Pharmaceutical companies manufacturing vaccines have responded, slowly, replacing ethyl mercury with Neomycin Sulphate in childhood vaccines.

The Australian Vaccination Network has played a critical role in the continued research into making vaccines safer.  Research continues to report alarming increases in incidences of Autism, allergies (asthma, food intolerances etc..) and other abnormal immunological responses (gluten, lactose intolerances and arthritis). Of particular concern is the increased diagnosis of Autism by the age of two years old, corresponding to the Infant Vaccination Schedule.  I contend that until the causation of the above conditions is fully understood and steps are taken to arrest the alarming increases in these conditions are available, ALL OPTIONS, DISCUSSIONS AND ADVOCACY GROUPS MUST REMAIN VIABLE to continue to provide a discourse that has, with the withdrawal of Ethyl-mercury from vaccines, shown to be effective in making vaccines safer.

Mercury is considered by WHO as one of the top ten chemicals or groups of chemicals of major public health concern.  Factors that determine whether health effects occur and their severity include:
the type of mercury concerned;
the dose;
the age or developmental stage of the person exposed (the foetus is most susceptible);
the duration of exposure;
the route of exposure (inhalation, ingestion or dermal contact).

Ethyl-mercury contained within vaccines is injected directly into the baby where it passes the blood/brain barrier where mercury compounds (ethyl-mercury, methyl-mercury and elemental mercury are KNOWN:  “'...adversely affect a baby's growing brain and nervous system. The primary health effect of mercury compounds is impaired neurological development. Therefore, cognitive thinking, memory, attention, language, and fine motor and visual spatial skills may be affected in children”  For this reason, Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 must NOT BE PASSED because due to pressure since 1969, vaccines are now in 2013 available without mercury. It must not be forgotten that advocacy groups such as AVN were instrumental in bringing to the attention of Australian authorities many incidences of adverse reactions to vaccines that resulted in their removal from childhood vaccine schedules and surprisingly, the offending ingredient has NOT BEEN DISCLOSED OR WITHDRWAN.  Let me be perfectly clear: without a strong voice the Public Interest maybe jeopardised by the far stronger and more powerful pharmaceutical companies that have vested interests in non-disclosure.  In early 1980's as part of a school vaccination program I received a vaccination that resulted in a massive and life-threatening immunological response. Despite there being no consent given, I received the vaccination. Today, many years later and years of research, my chronic arthritis is controlled by diet as a gluten/lactose intolerance over the years worsened. Many doctors visits later and years on arthritis medications, I have been able to discontinue medications and control the symptoms. This is in entirely due to alternative medicines advice – doctor's NEVER suggested immunological responses to food as the cause, they only prescribed more powerful drugs.  If we can identity early childhood immunological responses as a possible cause for the later-life conditions, this would benefit the community – no matter what the eventual cause is found to be.  In the meantime, components of vaccines (mercury, aluminium, retro viruses, host contamination and many others) need to be carefully scrutinised and improved until we have completely safe vaccinations (they delay in replacing ethylmercury with Neomycin Sulpate has been cost) – and to do this we need continued and strong advocacy groups to operative and achieve the astounding outcomes they have been successful at for decades in MAKING VACCINES SAFER. Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 must NOT BE PASSED.

Informed Choice

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