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This petition is demanding the repealing and or amending of the laws past by the NSW Parliament, requiring health care workers to submit to mandatory vaccination as a requirement of their employment or placement (university student). This is a violation of our human rights. This petition can be sent by NSW residents only.

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Stop the Coercive and Mandatory Immunisation (NSW)

Help us reach our goal of 100,000 signatures on the Health Petition sent to the Queensland Parliament.

Signatures received since launch day (September 8, 2009):

Dear Member of Parliament, I wish for the New South Wales Parliament to repeal and or amend the coercive and mandatory Immunisation policy set in place for health workers and students. This policy is unethical and should be changed considering the amassed valid scientific literature that shows vaccines to be potentially dangerous. Vaccination is a medical procedure for healthy individuals and not sick individuals. It is a procedure that injects weakened pathogens and chemical substances into the tissues of healthy individuals to produce an antibody response. Chronic illness in children has risen dramatically in the last two decades. In 2004 41% of 0-14 year olds had a chronic illness (1). Statistics in Australia indicate there has been a five-fold increase in life-threatening food allergies in children in the decade from 1994-2005 (1). Autism, asthma, learning and behavioral difficulties and autoimmune diseases have all increased significantly during this time (1). This coincides with the government’s push to increase vaccination rates in Australia to 95% with the implementation of the Immunize Australia Program in 1993 (2). Thiomersal, a mercury compound and neurotoxin was present in most infant vaccines prior to 2000 (3). Scientists have known since 1966 that the adjuvant used in vaccines – aluminium hydroxide/phosphate – and antibiotics (in vaccines) cause hypersensitivity reactions in humans (4). Yet we are injecting antibiotics, adjuvant, thiomersal and other compounds into the tissues of infants at the most vulnerable time of their development. Many adverse reactions to vaccines occur which vary in severity amongst individuals due to genetic factors (5). It is now known that an individual can be pre-disposed to a disease by having the gene for that disease but expression of the gene can depend upon an environmental factor (6). Factors thought to be responsible for activating genes include heavy metals, chemicals, viruses, bacteria, nutrition and emotional states and stress (6). Many of these triggers are found in vaccines. Veterinary scientists have correlated the increase in autoimmune diseases and sarcomas in dogs and cats to increased vaccine use (7). Long-term health studies showing the effects of multiple vaccines in infants have not been done in humans or animals (2). Greater emphasis is being placed on short-term epidemiological studies (statistical) with selective parameters investigating one vaccine at a time than the science that includes biological, clinical and ecological evidence that is showing a possible link with chronic illness in children (5) (8). In addition, twentieth century public health officials did not claim vaccines controlled infectious diseases (9). The underlying ethical principle of health practitioners is to first do no harm. If it is biologically plausible that using multiple vaccines in infants and adults could cause significant harm to a proportion of the population as a result of genetic predisposition and epigenetics, then the onus is on policy makers to provide conclusive evidence to the contrary before coercive vaccination policies are implemented. In 2006 the NSW government, without public consultation, implemented mandatory immunization policies for Health Professionals (10). The government should be required to demonstrate a serious risk to the community without these vaccinations before we lose the right to decide what we inject into our bodies. Precautionary Principle: The burden of proof of harmlessness of any new technology/chemical is on the proponent NOT the general public. References: 1) Australian Government, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), iv) 4829.0.55.001 Health of children in Australia: A Snapshot, 2004-05 2) Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, Immunise Australia Program 2004. 3) Kirby, D., 2005, Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy, St. Martin’s Press, New York. 4) Greville, RW. , 1966, Recent and Future Development in Immunising Vaccines, The Medical Journal of Australia, May 21, p. 908. 5) Commonwealth Department of Health, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), 1954 – 1986, Report of the Session, No. 38 – 101. 6) Ravel G, Christ M, Horand F, Descotes J, 2004, Autoimmunity, environmental exposure and vaccination: is there a link? , Toxicology, 196(3) : 211-6, Mar 15. 7) La Rosa, W.R., 2002, The Hayward Foundation Study on Vaccines; a possible etiology of autoimmune diseases. 8) Commonwealth of Australia, 1991, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Immunisation Procedures (fourth edition), Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. 9) Burnet, M.,1952, The Pattern of Disease in Childhood, Australasian Annals of Medicine, Vol.1, No. 2: p. 93. 10) NSW Department of Health, Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases, Policy Directive No. PD2007_006 The vaccine time line below helps illustrate my point further. Vaccine history • In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were contaminated with the SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected with these vaccines. (Med Jnl of Australia 17/3/1973 p555) • In 1871-2, England, with 98% of the population aged between 2 and 50 vaccinated against smallpox, it experienced its worst ever smallpox outbreak with 45,000 deaths. During the same period in Germany, with a vaccination rate of 96%, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox. ( http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020119hadwin/020119hadwin.toc.html ) The Hadwen Documents • In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in 1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don't Get Stuck, Hannah Allen) • In 1967, Ghana was declared measles free by the World Health Organisation after 96% of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr H Albonico, MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990) • In 1977, Dr Jonas Salk who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along with other scientists, that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most polio cases throughout the USA since 1961. (Science 4/4/77 "Abstracts" ) • In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre, UK) • In the 1970's a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. (The Lancet 12/1/80 p73) In 1976 mass vaccination of Swine flu begain in the USA. Within a few months, claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the vaccine. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths. However, several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after they were injected with the swine flu vaccine. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics. And the swine flu pandemic itself? It never materialized. ( http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx ) • In 1978, a survey of 30 States in the US revealed that more than half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The People's Doctor, Dr R Mendelsohn) • The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine. • In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its ineffectiveness. Out of 5,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84% had been vaccinated three times! (BMJ 283:696-697, 1981) • In the USA, the cost of a single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to $11.40 in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8 per shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, Issue 7, January 1994, Nambour, Qld) I wish for the New South Wales Parliament to repeal and or amend this draconian law ( Mandatory immunization policy for Health Professionals )to allow practitioners and students the right to choose without being threatened with removal from the work environment or academic facility. This is coercive in nature and is highly unethical. Yours sincerely

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