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SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MS MAHER: I present Report No. 7 of 1991 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation and seek leave to make a brief statement.
Leave granted.
MS MAHER: Report No. 7, which I have just tabled, details the committee's comments on the Unlawful Games (Amendment) Bill 1991, together with a number of pieces of subordinate legislation. As I commented this morning, this piece of legislation was put before the house yesterday afternoon and Professor Whalan, our adviser, worked on it last night and gave a report to us this morning. I thank him for his support and advice to the committee. I commend the report to the Assembly.
COMPULSORY IMMUNISATION
Statement by Member
MR PROWSE, by leave: Mr Deputy Speaker, I would just like to clarify remarks I made about compulsory vaccination. Members will note, if they carefully read yesterday's article in the Canberra Times, that the medical officer who was interviewed in fact supports most of the statements attributed to me, despite the personal attack to which he stooped. I might add that nowhere have I stated that children should not be vaccinated. What I did say was that parents have a right to be informed of the risks associated with vaccination to enable them to make an educated judgment on the issue.
Prevention of life threatening and maiming diseases by invading a healthy body with medically controlled safe dosages of viruses is a panacea which the world's leading scientific medical humanitarians have set as a goal for mankind. To date, this has not been achieved. Safety cannot be assured, and this shortcoming is attested to by reports of medical and mental maiming which occurs as a direct result of vaccinations each year. I challenge anyone who would argue against this statement to provide the necessary guarantee.
Sir Graham Wilson was a lecturer in the Department of Bacteriology at the London School of Hygiene and Director of Public Health Laboratory Services, England and Wales. In his book The Hazards of Immunisation he stated:
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