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• Bundaberg: Council’s fluoride fight lost

  A PARLIAMENTARY committee seems to have delivered the final nail in the coffin to Bundaberg Regional Council’s hopes of avoiding forced fluoridation of its drinking water. Council water and wastewater spokesman Alan Bush was hopeful of a win after he and CEO Peter Byrne flew to Brisbane over a week ago to put their case […]

• Bundaberg: Council wins fluoride struggle

  AFTER years of ups and downs Bundaberg Regional Council is finally claiming a win in its battle against the forced fluoridation of its water. In legislation before the State Parliament, the decision on whether to fluoridate or not was handed back to local governments. Member for Burnett Stephen Bennett said he was “absolutely ecstatic” at the […]

• Bundaberg: Fluoride forum is planned

  BUNDABERG Mayor Mal Forman has announced a public forum on fluoride, to be held at the Civic Centre on January 31. 2013. “I have stated on several occasions that while councillors have a view on fluoride, mainly based on the financial costs of implementing the program, council does not have a formalised position,” Cr Forman […]

• Bundaberg: Fluoridation facts meeting on January 31

  TWO Bundaberg citizens have organised a public meeting for this Thurday to discuss the facts of fluoridation. Matt Griffiths and Mitchell Faint have organised the evening session, with two pro-fluoride health professionals heading the meeting, and are inviting members of the community to attend. The announcement came as Bundaberg Mayor Mal Forman revealed more details […]

• Bundaberg: Anti-fluoride campaigner pulls out of forum planning

  PRO-FLUORIDE activists have criticised the council’s upcoming meeting, saying anti-fluoride campaigner Terry Farrell has been involved in planning it. An administrator of the Bundaberg – Say no to fluoride Facebook page has posted a comment saying they were “no longer involved in the organising of the Mayor’s fluoride forum”. “Although we support the event 100% […]

• Dentists concerned over Bundaberg fluoride opt-out

  Dental and medical associations say they are concerned that the Queensland city of Bundaberg has refused to take part in voluntary water fluoridation being rolled out across the state. Bundaberg’s councillor in charge of water says rolling out water fluoridation will be too costly for the community and there are serious health concerns, a claim […]

• Gladstone council to consider fluoride removal in April

  GLADSTONE residents can rely on getting a dose of fluoride in their drinking water for at least another few months, with Gladstone Regional Council set to consider removing it in April. State Health Minister Lawrence Springborg gave councils the go-ahead to stop adding fluoride to town water in November, despite widely-accepted dental health benefits. Gladstone […]

• Bundy water will not be fluoridated

  THE region’s drinking water will not be fluoridated, Bundaberg Regional Council has decided. At a meeting today, the council agreed to a motion by water and wastewater spokesman Alan Bush that fluoridation not go ahead. Cr Bush’s motion said the reason was the complex nature and high costs to fluoridate the 10 reticulated water supply […]

• Quotes from professionals on fluoridation – 2007

  The following quotes come from professionals who signed the Statement Calling for an End to Water Fluoridation. On August 9, 2007, the Fluoride Action Network released a statement calling for an end to fluoridation signed by over 600 professionals. Concurrent with its release, FAN made available the following quotes from some of the signers. PROFESSIONALS’ […]

• Australian Bauxite Ltd (ASX:ABX) Chairman’s Review of 2017 and Recent Developments

  Australian Bauxite Ltd (ASX:ABX) provides the Chairman’s Address to AGM 2018. Welcome to the 9th Annual General Meeting of shareholders of Australian Bauxite Limited (“ABx”). ABx has supplied to date 78 thousand tonnes of cement-grade bauxite and six thousand tonnes of fertiliser grade bauxite to our repeat customers. ABx remains ready to sell metallurgical grade […]