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Australian mainstream media is planning a protest campaign launch to push the federal and state government for the fluoridation of water supply. Murdoch owned The Daily Telegraph has expressed strong support for this agenda in one of its articles. Fluoridation of water isn’t as safe as the media is trying to deliberately substantiate. There is […]

A Lismore councillor wants Rous Water to suspend the fluoridation of the region’s water supply. Greens councillor Vanessa Ekins has announced she will lodge a motion at the next meeting of Rous Water on 16 September. Her motion is that ‘Rous Water suspend the addition of fluoride to the regional water supply until the National […]

Rous Water is set to begin its fluoridation program on parts of the Northern Rivers. The authority has now received final approval from the Department of Health. In the coming week dosing four plants will be switched on, meaning most consumers in the Lismore, Ballina and Richmond Valley areas will have fluoride added to their […]

MARK COLVIN: After six months’ unwinding many of the policies of the Newman government, Queensland’s Labor Government still won’t commit to reversing one of the more controversial of them. Campbell Newman made the fluoridation of water optional for local councils, and since then coverage has gone from 90 per cent of the population to 79 […]

Rupert Murdoch run media The Daily Telegraph, in Australia, has launched a major push for federal and state government to override local councils and fluoridate all water supplies. This is despite the growing scientific evidence and public backlash against fluoridation. Studies are showing that the sodium fluoride in the water supply is linked to a host of […]

TENS of thousands of children across Australia are suffering tooth decay, pain and the humiliation of bad teeth because the federal and state governments are failing to ensure water supplies are fluoridated. Regional and rural councils are being allowed to decide whether or not to fluoridate water supplies, despite the vast weight of evidence showing […]

MORE than 60 Victorian towns remain without a fluoridated drinking water supply despite health authorities and the State Government spruiking the oral health benefits to children. Melbourne and some regional areas have had fluoridated drinking water for almost 40 years. Fluoride was introduced to Maryborough and Kilmore water supplies earlier this year. But 63 towns with 1000-plus […]

Ballina Shire Council has rejected a push to have a community poll on fluoride. Councillor Jeff Johnson was unsuccessful with a notice of motion at yesterday’s council meeting, with no other councillor supporting his idea. ‘I’m surprised that my fellow Councillors think that this issue will just go away’, Cr Johnson said afterwards. ‘The decision […]

ANTI-FLUORIDE campaigners staged a blockade at the Corndale fluoride plant yesterday vowing to maintain action until local authorities stopped plans to put fluoride in drinking water. Final approvals on the new fluoride plants are expected as early as this week. Up to 30 protesters were singing and waving placards, but were also preparing a six […]

Ballina Shire Council’s town drinking water is about to have fluoride added to it at a cost of over $100,000 per year. This is despite less than one per cent of that water actually being used for drinking, and a worldwide trend of removing it from local water supplies. At this week’s (Thursday 27 August) […]