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A PUSH for further information about the potential adverse impact of adding fluoride to drinking water was defeated at Monday’s Hastings Council. Cr Lisa Intemann raised the notice of motion that as a matter of urgency, a report be brought back to the council on the potential adverse effect of adding fluoride to drinking water […]

THE Hastings Safe Water Association is pushing for Hastings Council to reverse its decision to refer fluoridation to the NSW Government. Publicity officer Don Mackay believes the council should honour the 1991 poll or put the issue to people through another poll. “It wasn’t the people who raised putting fluoride in (the water), it was […]

AN at times emotional debate culminated on Monday night with Hastings Council referring fluoridation to an expert panel. The council will approach the NSW government to establish the panel to advise on whether there is a strong case for fluoridation. If a strong case is found, the council will take up the Mid-North Coast Area […]

THE controversial fluoride debate will come to a head at today’s Hastings Council meeting. Since a Mid-North Coast Area Health Service teleconference last month, fluoridation of the water supply has been a hot topic, with both sides of the debate presented to the council. Two main motions will come before today’s meeting. Mayor Rob Drew […]

HASTINGS Council should listen to the people when considering the fluoride debate. That’s the opinion of Dennis Stevenson who outlined his “pro-choice” stance of fluoridation at a Hastings Council workshop on Monday night. The region’s 1991 referendum gave a very clear indication about the people’s views, he said. “Logically the only reason anyone can reconsider […]

A Hastings council workshop on fluoridation is to hear from a leading opponent who lobbied the ACT Government to take the chemical out of Canberra’s water. Dennis Stephenson now lives on the Gold Coast and will visit Port Macquarie this afternoon to put his case to council. The ACT Legislative Assembly abolished fluoridation in 1989 […]

HASTINGS councillors will hear the argument in favour of fluoridation at a workshop this week. This follows a meeting between mayor Rob Drew, Hastings Council general manager Bernard Smith, Mid-North Coast Area Health Service chief executive officer Terry Clout and health practitioners last week. “They presented a very good case,” Cr Drew said. Fluoridation was […]

After almost 40 years of providing fluoride to the shire’s residents northern NSW’s Ballina council is recommending that it scrap the service. Since 1965 the council has offered fluoride in one form or another. But new legislation now classifies fluoride as a poison. Ballina’s manager of water and sewerage, Phil Warner, says it is time […]

MORE research into the costs of putting “highly toxic minerals” in the city’s water will be done before a decision is made to fluoridate the water supply. Cairns Mayor Kevin Byrne last week said he would like to introduce fluoride immediately to improve the city’s poor dental record, but would hold a referendum to give […]

THE State Government is remaining tightlipped about a community awareness campaign promoting fluoridation in Ballarat. A spokesman for Health Minister Bronwyn Pike yesterday said exactly when and what the fluoridation campaign would involve was still being determined. But the government was “on track” to launch the campaign this year, the spokesman said. “We are on […]