Tag Archives: Tanya Hammond

Antivaxers violently react to proposed government immunisation-childcare policy and vilify bereaved parents

This news broke today: UNVACCINATED children will be banned from all childcare centres and preschools in Australia under a hard line proposal spearheaded by the federal government. The immunisation rates of all preschools and daycare centres will be made publicly … Continue reading

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Associate of WA’s Hammond family attacks Light for Riley in Facebook message

The Australian anti-vaccination movement has been involved in the harassment and vilification of families who have lost babies and children to vaccine preventable diseases for years. In 2009, incited by Meryl Dorey and the Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network, anti-vaccination activists went … Continue reading

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Anti-vaccine nurses and midwives 38

On October 11 2016, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia responded to a number of complaints regarding anti-vaccination material and advice being disseminated by registered nurses, enrolled nurses, and registered midwives, by publishing a new position statement on anti-vaccination misinformation: … Continue reading

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Anti-vaccine nurses and midwives 10

On a sad day in which we discover that a Melbourne woman is suffering from SSPE – an always-fatal condition which is caused by contracting a measles infection years earlier – we bring you one of the worst cases of an … Continue reading

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The Hammond Dilemma – adverse events and anti-vaccination activism

Until five days ago, as far as I  am aware, I had never commented publicly on the case of the Hammond family and their campaign for compensation for Ben Hammond’s “probable” 2012 vaccine adverse reaction. I just did not know … Continue reading

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