Australian government launches child vaccination campaign

[BF]

[quote=SBS News]The federal government is spending $5.5 million to encourage parents to vaccinate their children.
Health Minister Greg Hunt says while more than 93 per cent of five-year-olds are fully vaccinated, immunisation rates in some parts of Australia remain low.
The "Get Facts about Immunisation" campaign, launched at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital on Sunday, will target parents in these areas through child care centres and social media.[/quote]

Read more at [url]http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/08/13/govt-launches-child-vaccination-campaign[/url]

[Reds]

I feel like if they've convinced themselves that vaccines are bad and/or are part of a government conspiracy, then educational campaigns are doomed to fail because they'll just pretend that the facts are made up or are a malicious lie. People like that are being deliberately stupid and have convinced themselves that they're geniuses for it.

Vaccines seem like such a no-brainer that I'd be genuinely surprised if the genuinely ignorant could be swayed.

[Tamschi]

They really should make it as inconvenient as reasonably possible to not vaccinate a child (if they [I]really[/I] don't want to make it mandatory).
I remember reading an article somewhere saying vaccination refusal plummeted in an area that had the parents go even just slightly out of their way to get a waiver first. [editline]edit[/editline] [URL="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/strategy-of-inconvenience-may-be-the-best-way-to-boost-vaccination-rates/"]Here's the link[/URL][URL="https://archive.is/AnCue"].[/URL]

The information campaign probably won't hurt though.

[BF]

[QUOTE=Tamschi;52568000]They really should make it as inconvenient as reasonably possible to not vaccinate a child (if they [I]really[/I] don't want to make it mandatory).
I remember reading an article somewhere saying vaccination refusal plummeted in an area that had the parents go even just slightly out of their way to get a waiver first. [editline]edit[/editline] [URL="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/strategy-of-inconvenience-may-be-the-best-way-to-boost-vaccination-rates/"]Here's the link[/URL][URL="https://archive.is/AnCue"].[/URL]

The information campaign probably won't hurt though.[/QUOTE]

In Australia, parents who do not vaccinate their children, and do not have a legitimate medical reason, are ineligible for up to $15,000 in welfare benefits. It's the 'no jab, no pay' policy.

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The biggest problem for non vaccination in Aus are rich hippies so withholding benefits don't do a thing for them.

Hopefully this campaign targets their naivety and severe lack of education with vaccines because they get their facts from celebrity chefs