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Rural Decay
ALMOST half of all Victorian children have decayed teeth, potentially causing learning difficulties and behavioural problems. And rural Victorian kids’ teeth are twice as bad as those in metropolitan Melbourne because most regional water supplies are unfluoridated. Research by Deakin University, the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute has revealed 44 per […]
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Fluoride meeting in Tenterfield
At the fluoride meeting there were positive suggestions and alternatives to fluoridation put forward by locals. Calls for greater community education about healthy eating were made repeatedly. Local resident Noel Manser challenged NSW Health to distribute a show bag of toothbrushes, toothpaste and information to Tenterfield schools as part of a pilot study until 2008. […]
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Fluoride debate flows in Horsham
HORSHAM residents have weighed into an ongoing fluoride debate with concerns water fluoridation is receiving insufficient discussion by the community. Since announcing a Wimmera Primary Care Partnership bid to fluoridate Horsham water on April 1, the Mail-Times has published 22 letters to the editor on the subject with 19 opposing the proposal. Horsham mother Donna […]
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Trading tooth decay for cancer
THOSE health bureaucrats who want to force fluoride on the water supplies of rural NSW should learn from their cousins north of the border. This year, well-meaning people have again tried, unsuccessfully, to force mandatory water fluoridation on Queensland. Now I am not a scientist but there seem to be five prongs to their offensive: […]
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Warrumbungle: Fluoride could be dead in the water
The decision of the Warrumbungle Shire administrator to put fluoride into local town water supplies is likely be overturned at tonight’s council meeting. Bruce Rindflesh decided in February to fluoridate town supplies in Coonabarabran, Coolah, Dunnedoo, Baradine and Mendooran. A new council has since been elected and the new Mayor, Peter Shinton, says many residents […]
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Refinery talks on safety issues
AN industrial relations commissioner has been called in to try to resolve a safety dispute at a Brisbane refinery following a chemical spill that put workers in hospital. More than 40 people were affected and 24 taken to hospital after hydrogen fluoride gas was released by a pipe rupture at the Caltex refinery in suburban […]
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24 Hospitalized in Caltex Chemical Spill
A chemical spill Thursday at a Caltex oil refinery in an eastern Australian city sent 24 people to the hospital with burning skin and respiratory problems, police said. Refinery manager Andrew Brewer said hydrogen fluoride began spilling from the facility when a pipe burst, but the leak was immediately stopped and contained by water. Hydrogen […]
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Beattie to demand fluoride in water
QUEENSLAND is poised to join the rest of the nation in embracing water fluoridation, ending a 30-year political stalemate that has left its children with Australia’s highest dental-cavity rates. A draft cabinet submission obtained by The Australian reveals the Beattie Government is preparing to force local councils to add flouride to urban and rural water […]
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Queensland spilt over fluoride issue
The Queensland government is split over whether to add fluoride to the state’s water supply. The issue has pitted Premier Peter Beattie against his health minister after Mr Beattie ruled out taking charge of fluoridation. Mr Beattie killed off any likelihood of blanket fluoride protection in the state’s water supply on Tuesday, saying local councils […]
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Oberon rules out fluoride in water
The Rural Dental Action Group says it will go ahead with a public forum even though Oberon council has ruled out introducing fluoride to the town’s water. Council this week dismissed a motion proposing fluoridation be investigated and community feedback sought. Marj Bollinger from the Rural Dental Action Group says it is disappointing news, but […]
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