Australia to deny government child care benefits for anti-vaxxers

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/australia-deny-government-childcare-benefits-anti-vaxxers

Australia to deny government child care benefits for anti-vaxxers
04/13/15 10:43 AM?Updated 04/13/15 11:04 AM
By Michele Richinick

The Australian government soon will stop welfare payments to parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, a decision that comes just months after hundreds of people in the United States were affected by the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades...

 

[Emily]

[h=1]Abbott government vaccination plan won't work: expert[/h] Date April 13, 2015 - 8:33PM
[h=3]Judith Ireland [/h] The Abbott government's tough new stance on immunisation will only increase vaccination rates by an "absolute maximum of one per cent," a Sydney immunisation expert says.
University of Sydney associate professor Julie Leask said the federal government's move to prevent parents who don't vaccinate their children from accessing childcare payments and family tax benefits would not have a "meaningful" impact on overall immunisation rates.
Professor Leask said about 2 per cent of parents were currently registered as conscientious objectors to immunisation and of those, half were "hard core" while the other half would still give their children some vaccines.
She said that the hard core group would not be moved by the new policy, with only those who were partial objectors potentially open to changing their view. ..

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...on-plan-wont-work-expert-20150413-1mjyhw.html​

The new policy does seem to be working in the sense that it is opening some people's eyes to the dark side of government welfare programs.