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The following letter has been sent to newspapers and magazines across Australia. If you see this letter (or a version of it since the media generally edits anything we write in) in your local paper, could you please write and let me know? Also, if you feel that the coverage
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AUSTRALIAN Vaccination Network (AVN) spokesperson Meryl Dorey has challenged to publicly debate the benefits and risks of vaccination with Australian Medical Association's vice-president, Dr Steve Hambleton. Recently the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) decided the Bangalow-based AVN put lives at risk by providing ‘misleading, inaccurate and deceptive information’
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The following is extracted and adapted from an article I wrote for Overland Magazine called Safe or Sorry. I am not sure of the volume number, but it was in 2002. The link below will take you to a document provided to the AVN by ADRAC (The Adverse Drug Reactions
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In the last few days, I have been accused by various ill-informed people that I am incorrect in saying that vaccine reactions are not generally reported. They insist that reaction reporting is mandatory in Australia (it's not - several states, NSW among them, have rules to require reporting
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For some time now, both the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) and myself, Meryl Dorey, have stood accused of harassing Toni and David McCaffery, parents of three children; the youngest of whom, Dana, died from whooping cough in March of 2009. Understanding the sensitivity of this issue and not wanting to
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I have just done an interview with ABC Victoria regarding Australia's current high rate of pertussis (whooping cough) and what can be done about this. An AMA representative was interviewed about an hour earlier than me and they said that the vaccine should be given earlier - perhaps
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I had an interview yesterday with a journalist from one of the major Australian newspapers which will probably be published this weekend. We spoke for 1/2 an hour but I doubt that more than 1 or 2 sentences - if that much - of what I said will appear.
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For many months now, I have been receiving phone calls and emails threatening violence against myself personally due to my stance on informed vaccination choice. In the previous 17 years since starting the AVN, this had never happened. It is only since the emergence of publicity associated with the HCCC
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Yesterday, Steve Liebmann from Radio Station 2UE, interviewed Ken McLeod from Stop the Australian Vaccination Network (SAVN), the organisation that originally filed a complaint against the AVN with the HCCC and is now lobbying the government to close the Australian Vaccination Network down. This interview which you can hear by
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I guess I should not be surprised when the media gets something wrong. It's just that when they get SO MANY things wrong in one article, it's difficult not to read that as anything but intentional bias and deliberate misstatements. Below is a critique of the
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Several of our members have been inspired to write to the HCCC regarding their warning about information provided by the AVN. I am putting their letters here so those of you who feel moved to write in support of the AVN's work can also write to express your
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 26/07/2010 - For Immediate Release: Consumer advocacy and vaccine safety watchdog group, the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN), has just been informed by a media outlet that the HCCC has posted a notice on its website warning about the information provided by the AVN to health consumers via the