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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday April 14 2015, @08:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the when-you-can't-make-them-see-the-light dept.

The Center for American Progress reports

The anti-vaccine sentiments that originated with a [completely] discredited British study linking the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) shot to autism have made their way to other western countries like Australia.

According to the government agency that tracks Australia's childhood vaccination rates, the rate of kids going without their shots has doubled over the past decade.

[...]Australia has announced an aggressive new approach in this area: Cutting off government benefits to parents who refuse to inoculate their children.

Under the proposal, parents who claim philosophical objections to vaccines will no longer be eligible for welfare payments and childcare rebates that can equal up to $11,500 per child in American dollars. Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the policy change on Sunday, although it still has to be approved by Parliament.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by m2o2r2g2 on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:24AM

    by m2o2r2g2 (3673) on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:24AM (#170723)

    only if you define America as the reference. The USA is East of Australia.

    Now if we take it from the term's origination of location relative to setting out via ship from Europe/UK, then yes Australia is East, but again the West coast of the US is east of that (it's just that there was no real demand for sailing that route, as they would go to East Coast and go across the land instead).

    At some point as language does, it got transformed to mean Western European culture, or white people, vs Asian culture, or asian people, (with oddly no equivalent definition for African culture / black people)