Jane Hansen
The Daily Telegraph
January 2, 2014
Labor's Green Loon supporters and their Anti Immunisation DEATH WISH
THE state's new laws aimed at raising immunisation rates have now come into effect in childcare centres across NSW.
As of January 1, a child cannot be enrolled at a childcare facility unless the parent or guardian provides an official record proving the child is fully immunised or an approved exemption is provided.
Health Minister Jillian Skinner said the law sent a clear message to parents that the health of children and the wider community needed to be protected: "The government is determined to protect our children from the devastating consequences of vaccine-preventable disease."
The change to the Public Health Act follows The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph's No Jab No Play campaign, which highlighted how many communities in NSW had vaccination rates which had fallen below 50 per cent.
While the national average for vaccination is 92 per cent, almost 80,000 Australian children are not vaccinated.
Research released by The National Health Performance Authority last year revealed vaccination rates in some suburbs like Mosman and the eastern suburbs had fallen below 85 per cent, lower than some third world countries.
Some pockets in northern NSW have vaccination rates at 43 per cent, leaving communities open to epidemics of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton applauded the new laws.
"The conscientious objectors are not the target of these laws, you can talk to them until you are blue in the face and they won't change their mind, it's to target parents who have not got around to it or are concerned and it will compel them to get quality advice from their doctor," Dr Hambleton said.
The national notifiable diseases surveillance system reveals a resurgence of measles, mumps and rubella in 2013.
There have been 140 cases of measles. The NNDSS found half the cases of measles were in people who were not vaccinated, and 35 per cent had unknown vaccination status.
Under the new laws, if children have a medical contraindication to vaccination, are on a recognised catch-up schedule for immunisation, or if the parents or guardians are reluctant to vaccinate on religious or other grounds, the parents or guardian will have to produce Commonwealth forms that have been completed by a GP or nurse immuniser before entrance into a childcare centre.
Better Late than Never, Australia must start rebuilding or previously first world health standards that were in place before the Labor Green Loon Progressives "Powers of the Crystal and Unicorn Urine " Healing Balms that are so revered by the Marxist Left as a way of culling their Herd.
