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Geelong is closer to having a vote on fluoridation after Victoria Upper House MPs passed a bill on Wednesday night calling for regional referendums before adding fluoride to water supplies. Upper House members voted 21 to 19 in favour of the Democratic Labor Party bill. The bill will now go to the Lower House for […]

Parliament of Victoria LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL [Pages 78-81] Mr KAVANAGH (Western Victoria) – I would like to explain in some detail why I believe that it is wrong, regardless of the opinions of affected people, to fluoridate new areas of Victoria and therefore why all members should vote for the Health Fluoridation (Amendment) Bill. I will […]

Professor Anthony Blinkhorn OBE is retiring from the University of Manchester and as director of the National Fluoride Information Centre (NFIC). He is retiring from NFIC, England’s only independent information centre for fluorides and fluoridation, after three years for a new life in Australia as chair of Population Oral Health at Sydney University. Professor Robin […]

TWENTY-ONE south-west doctors have signed an anti-fluoride petition arguing it is “imprudent” to add the chemical to public water supplies. The doctors have declared their collective concerns about the “efficacy and safety” of water fluoridation. With the exception of Dr Janet Van Leerdam, who practices in Cobden, the remaining 20 are based in Warrnambool. In […]

The week after I arrived in Warrnambool about three months ago, 1,000 people attended a public meeting about the proposed introduction of fluoride to the water supply here. For a town the size of Warrnambool, that’s a lot of people… Having come from Canberra via Melbourne I was surprised to find that fluoride wasn’t already […]

The science showing fluoridation to be neither safe nor useful cannot be dismissed in the cavalier manner of Stephen Vaughan, chairman of Barwon Water (Geelong Advertiser 26/10). Vaughan labelled opposition as a guerrilla campaign of misinformation and scaremongering when asked about the Geelong fluoride forum of 25/10. He did not attend and apparently offers no […]

It seems that most Lithgow districts residents hold no strong opinions one way or the other on the issue of water fluoridation. But the few who do see it as an issue are very passionate in pressing their viewpoint, to the point of engaging in a public shouting match. Although only a small number of […]

Several weeks ago there was a resolution adopted in Lithgow Council calling for a public meeting to be arranged as ‘a matter of urgency’ to enable district residents to have their say on the issue of fluoridation of the water supply in the Council area. ‘Matter of urgency’ is also clearly a ‘matter of interpretation’ […]

TWO Moyne Shire councillors are disappointed their questions about fluoride were not answered by government officials in a closed information session. Bruce Couch and Jim Doukas, who represent communities where fluoride is about to be added to drinking water supplies, said the session had failed to give them a balanced view. The session in Mortlake […]

GUNDITJMARA Aboriginal Co-operative has denied it is pro-fluoride and is planning a members’ poll to determine its stance on the controversial issue. A Victorian Government advertisement in The Standard last Friday stated the co-op was one of several agencies that supported water fluoridation in Warrnambool. “We want to distance ourselves from that statement,” chairman Brian […]