House debates

Thursday, 14 September 2017

Questions without Notice

Vaccination

3:01 pm

Photo of Greg HuntGreg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

This is not the moment, I would say to the opposition, to try to politicise this program. What we are doing through the work of Ian Frazer, who's agreed to head this program, and through the presence of Toni McCaffery and her husband, who have been part of the campaign, is say to the anti-vaxxers that, whether they are from One Nation or whether they are from any other party, they have no place in putting that argument in Australian public life. This campaign is being backed with $5½ million. It's taking that on. As the AMA and the college of GPs have said, it's vital and it's successful and it's helping save lives. At the end of the day, vaccination is about one very simple thing: it saves lives and it protects lives.

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