Australia Enforces $11K Tax Penalty for Parents who Don’t Vaccinate
Should parents not have the choice?
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Social Services Minister Scott Morrison of Australia just announced a shocking and historic reform affecting parents who are concerned about vaccinating their children. Those who refuse to vaccinate their kids will be denied as much as $11,000 in childcare rebates and welfare under new rules by the Federal Government.
Aussies are calling it ‘no jab, no pay,’ and it is a sinister overreach of government into personal medical choice.
Previously, parents could refuse vaccination through a ‘conscientious objector’ loophole. Parents will still be able to resist immunizing their children on medical and religious grounds without financial penalty, but the removal of the “conscientious objector’ clause means that parents won’t simply be able point to point to the medical uncertainty that vaccines are safe as a reason to refuse them for their children.
Aside from some faulty logic behind vaccines, such as a baby getting a Hep B vaccine when Hep B is only contracted through needle sharing and sexual contact, companies charged with making vaccines were accused of withholding evidence that they caused unsavory side effects.
Nevermind a ‘conscientious’ refusal by parents who aren’t sold on the complete safety of vaccines. Now if they fail to immunize their children in Australia, they will no longer be paid either (or all of) the following:
- A $200-a-week childcare benefit
- The $7,500-a-year childcare rebate, or
- The $726 Family Tax Benefit A annual supplement
In a family with two children, this could amount to as much as $30,000.
Australia currently boasts childhood vaccination rates of over 90% for under 5’s, but the number of vaccine refusers is growing steadily.
Prime Minister Abbott defends his position by stating:
“Parents who vaccinate their children should have confidence that they can take their children to child care without the fear that their children will be at risk of contracting a serious or potentially life-threatening illness because of the conscientious objections of others.”
Read: Immunize Your Child or Lose Benefits, Parents Told
If vaccines protect children from disease, what difference does it make if they are exposed to children who aren’t vaccinated?
Why do those who choose to vaccinate have more rights than those who chose not to?
Currently, parents must immunize their children in order to access childcare subsidy payments and FTB supplements. Until now, they could have simply signed a form saying that they had discussed the issue with a general practitioner and had decided to forgo the vaccinations for “personal philosophical, religious.’ The parents of more than 24,000 children have refused vaccines with this clause in the past decade.
Existing exemptions on medical or religious grounds will continue, but this will only be honored where the parent is affiliated with the religious group and the governing body had formally registered objection approved by the Government.
This means that whether or not you subject your child – your infant of only a few days old, in many cases – to possibly damaging vaccines is now the choice of the government, not the parent.
And this isn’t just happening in Australia. The U.S. is looking at similar legislation. The U.S. is also trying to pass legislation that would absolve Pharmaceutical companies from having to pay vaccine injury cases, even though the government just had to pay compensation to 80 flu vaccine injuries and deaths very recently.
In another case, GlaxoSmithKline made headlines after having to settle a major lawsuit that brought up their payouts to over $9.1 billion since 2003. This time, it is due to GSK’s product Pandemrix, which has caused narcolepsy in many individuals.
Furthermore, a U.S. citizen, by law, cannot sue a pharmaceutical company for damages resulting from vaccines. Congress gave them total legal immunity in 1986, and that law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011.
There is a special “vaccine court” called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program that is funded through a tax on vaccines. If you are injured or killed by a vaccine, you must hire an attorney and fight tax-funded government attorneys to seek damages, since you can’t sue Big Pharma directly.
More than 117 cases have been settled by pharmaceutical companies in just the last six months, yet mainstream media reports none of these cases, no injuries, and no possible dangers associated with vaccines.
When a former CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson decided to come clean about the dangers of vaccines, the mainstream media treated the occasion with a total blackout. (You can watch him talk about in this video, though.)
But yes – by all means, government-enforced vaccinations with no recourse for damages that they cause – this makes a load of sense. The people of the world have been deliberately deceived about vaccines, and if nothing else, the choice to vaccinate should remain.
 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
I wouldn’t want to live in a ‘Forced Medical State’, the drug companies have taken control of people’s lives, which in many cases could end them, how the sad people of Australia go along with this evil is beyond logic.
Thanks Christina.
Australia: everybody must get vaccinated, except the Prime Minister’s daughters
By Jon Rappoport
2006: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused to vaccinate his daughters
Meet vaccine refuser, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
We’re talking about Tony Abbott, who just ruled from on high that there are no more exemptions from vaccines in Australia.
those reading below may miss my comment to john. am reposting here.
yes john it goes deeper than that and yes it is scarey. I’m from Sydney and this government here is unbelieveable. No respect for the environment for starters and we need the world to stand up and protect us from laws like this one. It goes further than this in fact, You have to present the kids vaccination papers to get the kid into school OR get a doctor to SIGN that its ok they are not vaccinated and the doc of course is answerable to the medical board etc etc, See the loop, the pattern all designed to take our freedom and head to a dictatorship. Bad news. We need the world to help us object…please
Somewhere in this exists more than meets the eye. First since when has a government been genuine about concern over your children or your health? Its likely big money, big authority for some undeclared strategy or heaven forbid a government that has signed onto euthanasia in disguise,
A band of the nation’s most untrustworthy group of professionals reasons what’s best for you, flying in the face of a myriad of data disproving the efficacy of vaccination. Rather the opposite demonstrating what a bloody fool you are going down the vaccination road. Civil disobedience and efforts to expose the parties pushing this malevolent process is fast becoming vital – this is step 101 – close to forced medication which is probable step 3 or 4.
Its very disturbing how “Western” countries/societies are getting more and more totalitarian by the day.
The government is not forcing people to vaccinate their children. You still have a choice, you just won’t be given up to $15k (which is a privilege, NOT a right) if you don’t. If you want to receive welfare generated by people in the community, you need to respect the community – in this case, by getting your children vaccinated so they are no longer a danger to the community at large.
Vaccinations are necessary because they eliminate infectious diseases. Previously, measles, polio and whopping cough were nearly non-existent in the US. Drop the vaccination rates, and now we’re seeing outbreaks in multiple areas. These diseases can be wiped out if we vaccinate. The argument of, “How does my unvaccinated child hurt your vaccinated child?” does not work – we need vaccination rates to be around 95% to generate herd immunity, which will protect those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons (e.g. immunocompromised, allergic, etc.), and to eliminate these preventable diseases once and for all. Vaccinations worked for smallpox, and they will work for other diseases too – but only if we vaccinate.
That’s a hogwash! Do you aware the force vaccination is a violation of the Nuremberg Code? Vaccines are a violation! This is a BIOLOGICAL WARFARE DESIGNED TO NEUROLOGICALLY DUMB PEOPLE DOWN.
Vaccination is crime against humanity! Watch: Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s speech at the Sacramental, Calif. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U14ITEFqrlg and about Dr. Haley vs Dr. Offit; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVXrPJQG9Mc also cause brain damaged victims of swine flu: https://naturalsociety.com/brain-damaged-victims-of-swine-flu-vaccine-win-63-million-lawsuit/?utm_source=Natural+Society&
Did you even read my first sentence? The government is not forcing anyone to do anything. This is not a fine.
And vaccines as a way to dumb people down? Gee, guess that explains why my whole family was able to go to uni, my friends and I all got merit scores in high school and have all graduated from rigorous uni courses, with a couple of us studying for PhDs. Those vaccines really held us back.
You really need to read the scientific research, or just watch the many vaccination documentaries out there that explain how vaccines work. This is not a conspiracy. Do you know anyone who has actually suffered from vaccination?
If a child contracts measles, polio or whooping cough without being vaccinated, they run the risk of permanent impairment or death. If we don’t all vaccinate against these diseases, they will continue to run rampant. Have you heard about the babies dying from whooping cough because they were too young to be vaccinated? This is what we need to prevent.
I guess you deliberately ignoring that our government have already pass the law to mandate vaccines on children, against parent’s will and it’s happen around the country, including Australia. And You didn’t bother to watch the video that I shared it you, right? Sorry, those vaccines are proved to be unsafe and doesn’t cure those winter diseases. Did you paid a attention That I sent you a link about the headline that said: Brain-Damaged Victims of Swine Flu Vaccine Win $63 Million Dollars Lawsuit??? Another world there is cesspool of corruption are involved in pharmaceutical industry. Many cases of autism in children are from vaccines, it has been finally admitted it now. I take natural remedy that is more affective than vaccines, and I have never have any cold & flu for the last more than ten years.
J.F.K. Jr made a speech about vaccines corruption in the CDC, Pharmaceutical Industry, Doctors, and Wall Street.
THey are NOT running rampant.
Just because THEY say it was measles …don’t make it so….
Squish (a strangely appropriate handle), it matters not which side of the debate on which you stand. The fact is that it is quite ILLEGAL for the government to do what it is doing. Under section 51 of the Australian Constitution, the govt may make laws re:, … here it is: QUOTE: “medical and dental services (but not so as to authorize any form of civil conscription) UNQUOTE.
Clearly, when our government is set to disobey the ONLY law that “We the People” impose on it in order to write illegal laws to bind us, we have entered that time of “lawlessness” to which the Bible refers. Now I wonder, Squish, what do YOU suppose could be the motive of the Framers of our Constitution for prohibiting governmental blackmail to enforce medical conscriptions? Do you think they had confidence in unfailing governmental beneficence? Or do you suppose that with the centuries of history behind them they saw the potential for something more sinister and wanted to preserve the ability of We the People to preserve a modicum of control on our government?
In recent years, the courts have moved towards interpreting law according to the intent of its authors, even down to referring to notes made by them at the time. Given that there was no government social security when the Constitution was written, it is quite clear that the withholding of tens of thousands of dollars of tax-paid social security to force citizens to vaccinate would have absolutely been prohibited by that law.
There is only one way to make such a heinous government act legal: Hold a referendum and change the Constitution. But the government knows that it is unlikely – highly unlikely to succeed when that vote is put to We the People.
Conscription requires forced compliance. The government is not forcing people to vaccinate. It is simply removing benefits for not doing so. Protecting public health is important and the government is trying to enforce that. People can still choose not to vaccinate, they just won’t be rewarded for that choice. It is not conscription.
You sound like you’re harbouring some serious conspiracies. Doesn’t usually make people sound intelligent or well-informed.
Squish, “conscription” doesn’t mean “physically forced compliance”. It means “by compulsion”. The law has several ways of implementing that compulsion: Gaol is only one. Heavy fines are another. Now if *you* don’t consider that withdrawing access to funding for which the taxpayer has paid his taxes to be the equivalent of a fine, especially given that Social security was unknown by the framers of our Constitution, then your worldview is limited to a very narrow dictionary. In fact I’d suggest you may be an Aspergers sufferer!
With regard to your last sentence: Why on Earth do you think that human nature has changed so drastically that the proven trail of conspiracies over the last few thousand years has suddenly – very suddenly by-the-way – come to a standstill? Have you ever heard (for examples) of the MK-Ultra mind-control program? The Tuskagee Syphilis Study? What about Hitler’s false flag firing of the Reichstag in order to pass law giving him totalitarian powers? And “closer to home”, re: medicine, what about the billions in fines paid out recently by the pharmaceuticals as a result of their conspiracies to withhold and falsify information to the public? Are you really naive enough to think that where billions of dollars is concerned conspiracies have been magically vanquished? No, Squish, it is YOU that your last sentence makes look unintelligent and uninformed. Tell you what, google “conspiracies proven to be true”. See what comes up!
To finalise: Tell me, do you sincerely believe that because you have the right to re-elect the mob that is selling the country down the drain, or throw ’em out and re-elect the ones you threw out a few years ago for the same reason that you live in a democracy?
Nice to see a voice of reason on here. Unfortunately your arguments fall on deaf ears. Not vaccinating children is akin to child abuse. Wish I had seen this back when you had originally posted it, i’m a bit late to say, good on you. Thank you for giving a damn.
When you lose in the court of public opinion the state will resort to force. This removal of informed consent is no different then rape. Rape is sex without one parties’ consent. What is the difference? I see none.
You are absolutely right.
This is truly a gross violation of a person’s sovereignty over their own body.
the following exert demonstrates how little knowledge the writer has about immunization “If vaccines protect children from disease, what difference does it make if they are exposed to children who aren’t vaccinated?”
the problem with having part of the population un-vaccinated is that the disease will breed/circulate in those people and the opportunity for the disease to evolve drug/immunization resistance is real, which can then lead to vaccinated children being affected.
the hole debate of vaccination stems from misinformed/uneducated people (more like idiots) like this writer who mistakenly believe they are smarter than the experts and try and draw their own incompetent conclusions. please educate yourself before attempting to educate others.
Facts
Not one single primate study as been performed that has shown the recommended vaccine schedule to be safe.
No studies have been done on combined vaccines such as MMR. They have only been tested individually (if you believe their safety studies). No one has studied if children can handle them all combined.
No longitudinal studies comparing the health outcomes of vaccinated population against the health outcomes of unvaccinated children.
They even rig the tests to control the results. They contaminate the placebo with all the toxins also so that the net affect is “see, the vaccine aint that bad.” Its all a total fraud!
You should do the same. Follow your advice before posting.
those so called experts and you are full of $hit.