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AN anti-fluoridation group has welcomed a comment by Premier Campbell Newman that the introduction of fluoride into Mount Isa’s water system may be reviewed. Merilyn Haines on behalf of Queenslanders For Safe Water, Air and Food Inc. said Premier Newman’s comment in Parliament last week “opened the door to review water fluoridation in communities where […]

KURANDA dad Clayton Grove says it is the fear of the unknown that concerns him most about having fluoride added to his family’s drinking water. “It’s forced medication really,” he said. Mr Grove and his daughter Lani, 2, were among a group of about 50 Kuranda residents who met at Centenary Park yesterday armed with […]

BUNDABERG Regional Council has formally agreed to apply to the State Government for exemption from a requirement to fluoridate its water. Council water and wastewater spokesman Alan Bush, who has long been an opponent of the fluoridation requirement, told a meeting yesterday Premier Campbell Newman had told State Parliament he was prepared to review the […]

The Shire of Carnarvon has welcomed a decision by the Health Minister not to introduce fluoride into Carnarvon’s water supply. In 2010, the Health Department announced a plan to add fluoride to the town’s water. Residents handed the Minister more than 800 letters opposing the measure. The Carnarvon council also voted to support the position […]

FLUORIDE will be added to Mount Isa’s water in December, becoming the final part of a Queensland Health plan to fluoridate the state. The move comes a year later than the original December 2011 deadline after the former Mount Isa City Council stalled the process in the face of a strong anti-fluoride campaign. Yesterday Mount […]

FLUORIDE will not be forced on the region’s outlying communities in a move that could prevent millions of dollars being wasted on water no one drinks. Two years ago, Toowoomba Regional Council started adding fluoride to Toowoomba’s water supply under a compulsory State Government scheme. Council was in the process of planning how it would […]

PORT Macquarie Hastings Council has resolved not to hold a community poll on fluoridation in conjunction with Local Government Elections in September. Council general manager Tony Hayward said in his report that as there has not been an elected council for more than four years, it may be considered ‘inappropriate to table what might be […]

Anti-fluoride campaigner Al Oshlack has vowed to keep fighting to stop the introduction of fluoride into the region’s water supply, despite a ruling against him by the Land and Environment Court last week. In handing down her ruling in favour of Rous Water and Ballina Council, Justice Pepper awarded costs against Mr Oshlack, saying his […]

FURTHER discussion on a poll about the fluoridation of the region’s water supply will not take place until after September’s local government elections. About 120 people took their plea to hold a poll about fluoride alongside this year’s election to last night’s council meeting. But Port Macquarie-Hastings Council general manager Tony Hayward said last night […]

LISMORE anti-fluoride campaigner Al Oshlak has vowed to take his fight against the fluoridation of the Ballina, Lismore and Wardell water supply to the Supreme Court of Appeal. The veteran campaigner has also pledged “not to pay a cent” of the estimated $300,000 legal costs racked up by Rous Water and Ballina Shire Council that […]