Social Services Legislation Amendment (No Jab, No Pay) Bill 2015
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Submission: Social Services Legislation Amendment (No Jab, No Pay) Bill 2015 Overview: Government health policy should support the basic human right of informed consent to medical treatment. The coercive No Jab, No Pay policy denies us this right. There is significant historical, scientific and medical evidence that does not support government vaccination policy. Furthermore, vaccination policy is often informed by powerful vested interests and fraudulent studies, rather than independent, unbiased scientific evidence. Much of this evidence has been suppressed by pro-vaccine lobby groups, particularly pharmaceutical companies and others with vested interests, and by the mainstream media. So well has it been hidden that many (if not most) medical practitioners are not aware of this evidence. Scientists, medical practitioners and whistleblowers who are aware and speak out risk vilification, being ostracized, and even their careers - which is certainly a deterrent to others speaking out. These issues will be discussed in more detail below, with supporting evidence. 1. Informed Consent to Medical Treatment: The Medical Board of Australia's Code of Conduct for Doctors states in part: Informed consent is a person’s voluntary decision about medical care that is made with knowledge and understanding of the benefits and risks involved. See: http://www.medicalboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Policies/Code-of-conduct.aspx The "Australian Immunisation Handbook, 10th Edition" states in part: For consent to be legally valid, the following elements must be present: 1. It must be given by a person with legal capacity, and of sufficient intellectual capacity to understand the implications of being vaccinated. 2. It must be given voluntarily in the absence of undue pressure, coercion or manipulation. 3. It must cover the specific procedure that is to be performed. 4. It can only be given after the potential risks and benefits of the relevant vaccine, risks of not having it and any alternative options have been explained to the individual. See:http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/Handbook10- home~handbook10part2~handbook10-2-1 Furthermore, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine states in part: An intervention in the health field may only be carried out after the person concerned has given free and informed consent to it. This person shall beforehand be given appropriate information as to the purpose and nature of the intervention as well as on its consequences and risks. The person concerned may freely withdraw consent at any time. See: http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/164.htm Not only does the No Jab, No Pay policy negate the right to informed consent, but based on my family's experience, and as most parents can attest, it is very rare that doctors provide information regarding the potential risks of vaccination. And considering doctors are paid bonuses for vaccinating their young patients, it wouldn't serve their financial interests to provide such information. 2. Withholding information on safety concerns from parents and health practitioners: Excerpt from: "The Health Hazards of Disease Prevention" by Dr Damien Downing: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n02.shtml Vera Hassner Sharav writes: "Public health officials on both sides of the Atlantic have lost the public trust because they have been in league with vaccine manufacturers in denying that safety problems exist. If vaccines posed no safety problems why has the US Vaccine Court awarded more than $2 billion dollars to settle 2,500 cases involving vaccine-related debilitating injuries in children?" When US FDA officials analyzed the data on autism and thimerosal-containing vaccines they found a clear link. Their response, detailed in transcripts of a meeting at Simpsonwood, VA in July 2000 was to "massage" the data to make the link go away. In the UK, JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunization) has known since 1986 that there were serious safety concerns around vaccinations, for measles in particular. JCVI has repeatedly responded to negative data by ignoring it or covering it up, and has downplayed vaccine safety concerns while overplaying benefits. Deliberate concealing of information from parents for the purpose of getting them to comply with an “official” vaccination schedule is shown in: 30 years of secret official transcripts show UK government experts cover up vaccine hazards (on the Child Health Safety website). The excerpt below from the paper, "The vaccination policy and the Code of Practice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination (JCVI): are they at odds?" by scientist, Lucija Tomljenovic PhD, is notable: Here I present the documentation which appears to show that the JCVI made continuous efforts to withhold critical data on severe adverse reactions and contraindications to vaccinations to both parents and health practitioners in order to reach overall vaccination rates which they deemed were necessary for “herd immunity”, a concept which with regards to vaccination, and contrary to prevalent beliefs, does not rest on solid scientific evidence as will be explained. As a result of such vaccination policy promoted by the JCVI and the DH, many children have been vaccinated without their parents being disclosed the critical information about demonstrated risks of serious adverse reactions, one that the JCVI appeared to have been fully aware of. It would also appear that, by withholding this information, the JCVI/DH neglected the right of individuals to make an informed consent concerning vaccination. By doing so, the JCVI/DH may have violated not only International Guidelines for Medical Ethics (i.e., Helsinki Declaration and the International Code of Medical Ethics) but also, their own Code of Practice. See: http://nsnbc.me/wpcontent/uploads/2013/05/BSEM-2011.pdf Though the information above refers to the UK, the situation is the same in Australia, and in the USA. E.g. Nephrologist, Dr Suzanne Humphries, in part VI of her YouTube video series, "Vaccines-Honesty vs Policy," states: Doctors like me were never taught that decades of testing which showed that the flu vaccine was rubbish never saw the light of day. Today, the Cochrane writings on the ineffectiveness of the flu vaccine, and Dr Tom Jefferson's view that the flu vaccine is given as policy, not for scientific reasons, is little known. The information in Sir Graham Wilson's book (The Hazards of Immunization by Sir Graham S Wilson MD, LL D, FRGP, DPH) never made it to medical libraries or to medical doctors' consciousness. And: Even if vaccines can protect for some diseases for a period of time in a lifespan, which is the best they really can claim, the assurances given to both sick and well people regarding safety and effectiveness is not backed by science, history, or even a significant portion of the scientific and immunologic literature. See: Vaccines-Honesty vs Policy - Part VI. The Business of Vaccination. There is a culture of stifling debate on vaccination, pushed with a vengeance by the pro-vaccination lobby, such as the Australian Skeptics organisation, and aided and abetted by a biased media. This stifling of debate is certainly not scientific, nor in the interests of informed consent. One example was the forced cancellation of a seminar tour of a few Australian cities by vaccine expert Dr Sherri Tenpenny, that was to have taken place in March this year - due to threats of violence against venues hosting the seminars. A typical example of the media's misinformation is evident in the May 1, 2015 article, "Vaccine brings down cervical cancer cases," published online in the Weekly Times Now: http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/vaccine-brings-down-cervical-cancer-cases/story-fnjbnvyg- 1227329703643. The claim in the headline and first paragraph of this article, that there has been a sharp fall in the number of young Australian women being detected with signs of early cervical cancer since the introduction of the Gardasil vaccine, is a blatant lie. The current AIHW Cervical Screening in Australia Report, to which the article refers, actually states that "Both incidence and mortality halved between the introduction of the NCSP (The National Cervical Screening Program) in 1991 and the year 2002, and have since remained at around 9 new cases and 2 deaths per 100,000 women". Gardasil was only introduced in 2007, so has had NO impact on this low cervical cancer rate. Also, according to many sources, Gardasil is one of the most dangerous vaccines on the market, as it has caused an unprecedented number of serious adverse reactions, including a worrying number of deaths. US courts have paid out significantly more compensation to victims of Gardasil than any other vaccine. See: http://sanevax.org/vaccine-injury-compensation-program-gardasil-settlements/ In view of the risks, Japan has recently removed Gardasil from its recommended vaccine schedule; and court cases for people harmed by HPV vaccines have been started in France, India and Spain. E.g: http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/supreme-court-in-india-to-rule-on-merck-fraud-regarding-hpv-vaccine- deaths/ Yet the mainstream media remains incredibly quiet about this, while also pushing for more uptake of this vaccine. 3. Evidence vaccines are not the life savers they are claimed to be: Two excerpts from "The Doctor's Dilemma" by Dr Jayne LM Donegan show that death rates of diseases supposedly lowered by vaccination, were in fact in steep decline well before vaccination was introduced: http://www.jayne-donegan.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/2009-The-Doctors-Dilemma- website.pdf: I was astonished and not a little perturbed ti (sic) find that when you draw a graph of the death rate from whooping cough that starts in the mid nineteenth century you can clearly see that at least 99% of the people who used to die of whooping cough in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century has (sic) stopped dying before the vaccine against whooping cough was introduced, initially in the 1950s and universally in the 1960s.