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Benefit payments for Australian father cut while son receives cancer treatment
24 October 2019 - A Perth father has reportedly lost his Family Tax Benefit cut because his son wasn't vaccinated. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Sep 2019
'No jab, no pay' threat prompts an extra 174,000 children to be vaccinated in one year
1 September 2019 - A threat to cut family tax benefits for Australians who did not vaccinate their children has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Free flu jabs for kids on NIP move is welcomed by state Health minister Steven Miles
28 August 2019 - Australian children aged six months to five will be given free flu vaccines in 2020 if Health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
Meningococcal B survivors push government for free vaccine
18 August 2019 - A vaccine exists for the most common strain of deadly meningococcal disease, yet the B vaccine is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Aug 2019
Vaccinating our kids shouldn’t be this hard
3 August 2019 - It cost about $600, a frustrating 30 or so phone calls to pharmacies and several trips ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2019
Governments refuse to fund meningococcal B vaccine
4 August 2019 - Federal and state governments are refusing to fund the meningococcal B vaccine while the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2019
‘A life is more important than money’: grieving parents’ plea for funded vaccination
4 August 2019 - Little Donald Peach was fully vaccinated — or so his parents thought after following the government’s official ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jul 2019
Children in the UK are having their lives saved by a new Meningococcal B vaccine our government won’t fund
27 July 2019 - There is a vaccine for the Meningococcal B disease that’s killed two Australians this month and left ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2019
Meningococcal B vaccine must be urgently added to the National Immunisation Program
19 July 2019 - It is particularly cruel that the people with the most life to live are the prime ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
Toddler died of only meningococcal strain not on vaccine program
18 July 2019 - A toddler has died after contracting meningococcal B, the only strain of the potentially deadly disease with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2019
Vaccine crisis leaves Australia’s immunisation record in tatters
9 July 2019 - Thousands of Australians are dying from the flu and meningococcal because lifesaving vaccines are not being approved, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2019
Pharma giant wants vaccination reform
9 July 2019 - Pharmaceutical giant GSK is calling for Australia to update its review of subsidised immunisation programs and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jun 2019
Recommendations made by the PBAC - March 2019
31 May 2019 - The recommendations from the March 2019 PBAC meeting have been updated. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2019
Flu vaccine shortage amid run on private market pharmacy supplies
29 May 2019 - Australian pharmacies are running out of the flu vaccine amid unprecedented numbers of people getting immunised ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2019
Teenager's meningococcal death prompts coroner to urge free B-strain vaccine
5 March 2019 - A coroner wants the Tasmanian Government to offer free meningococcal B strain vaccines for people younger ...