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MACKAY will have fluoride added to its drinking water late next year. Just as she did with daylight saving, Premier Anna Bligh has dug in her heels over the contentious fluoridation issue. While the Premier acknowledged at yesterday’s Community Cabinet meeting in Mackay that some people were against fluoridation, she said she was satisfied it […]

The Queensland government has awarded Tenix Alliance the tender to design and construct water fluoridation facilities in south-east Queensland. Premier Anna Bligh announced that Tenix would upgrade six plants to provide fluoridated water to the region by 2012, in a $35 million program. Tenix has designed and constructed more than 30 treatment plants across Australia. […]

Victoria’s Health Department says it will be going ahead with the introduction of fluoride to water supplies in Mildura, Swan Hill and Kerang. Victoria’s chief health officer says the Loddon Mallee region has a high number of people needing hospital treatment for dental conditions and the benefits of fluoridation are proven. John Carnie says information […]

FLUORIDATION will be scrapped from Moyne Shire’s public health plan. But the council is powerless to stop the State Government from injecting the chemical into its public water supplies. The council this week agreed to remove references from its plan that advocated the fluoridation of reticulated water. Only two councillors voted against the decision, which […]

A LONG-STANDING union ban preventing the fluoridation of Ballarat’s water supply is being reconsidered. The ban was enforced more than 20 years ago by the Electrical Trades Union, the Plumbers Union and the Australian Services Union. It came after Ballarat residents rejected a proposal to fluoridate the city’s water supply, and unions refused to install […]

A BLUEPRINT to reverse Third World standards of Aboriginal health calls for fluoridation of drinking water in most Aboriginal communities by 2020. Developed by the “Close the Gap” indigenous health campaign, the blueprint was presented to Health Minister Nicola Roxon and Liberal Senator Cory Bernadi yesterday. Both sides of politics have signed on to the […]

The fluoride debate was effectively finished when Council considered the fluoride petition questions at the July 10 Extraordinary meeting submitted by a group of 73 petitioners in June. Cr Kerry Child successfully moved at the July 1 Ordinary meeting that the questions be answered by staff at the planned extraordinary meeting. Cr Child was hoping […]

MOVES are now well under way for the introduction of sodium fluoride into the Crookwell water supply. Mr. Luke Moloney, Upper Lachlan Shire Manager of Water and Sewer, reported to last week’s Council meeting that investigations had already started into the purchase and installation of Sodium Fluoride Saturation Plant for Crookwell. This had followed a […]

THE decision not to fluoridate the Eurobodalla’s water supply has sparked a greater debate as to the relevance of council’s public consultation process. Almost a quarter of the shire’s population responded to an extensive council survey, and two-thirds of respondents supported fluoridation. This week’s 5-4 vote by councillors against fluoridation launched a swathe of angry […]

THREE Eurobodalla Shire Councillors have already lodged a rescission motion after council yesterday voted 5-4 not to fluoridate the shire’s public water supply. The decision came despite 67.5 per cent of respondents to council’s community survey having said they wanted fluoride in the water supply. Councillors Peter Cairney, Chris Kowal, Graham McGillivray and Alan Morton […]