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UK Against Fluoridation

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Australia - fight against fluoridation goes on.

Opponents of fluoride plan rally
BY DI THOMAS
ORGANISERS are hoping thousands of people will attend a water fluoridation protest rally to be held in Wodonga on October 14.
Fluoride Education Awareness Team president Marilyn Edgar urged those 5000 Wodonga residents who have signed the team’s petition calling for a binding referendum on fluoridation to attend the rally, which will be held in Woodland Grove from 10am.
“We need to make more impact and we need to show the Government that we mean what we say,” Ms Edgar said.“They are ignoring us so far.They have told us they will not hold a binding referendum and they will not consult with the community.By Christmas I can’t see why we can’t have 6000 signatures on the petition and we are asking people who haven’t yet signed it to come along to the rally.”
Ms Edgar said even if fluoridation of water supplies to Wodonga and five smaller North East towns went ahead in February, protesters wouldn’t let up in their campaign.“Civil disobedience is always at our disposal when the Government fails to acknowledge people’s concerns,” she said.
Ms Edgar said she had already notified North East Water that she would be deferring all payments of her water bills until she had recouped the cost of installing a reverse osmosis water filter and the ongoing operation costs of the filter on her own water supply.
“If enough people joined us in our action they couldn’t take us to court,” she said.
Ms Edgar said following 12 months of continued requests by the community for consultation about the advantages and disadvantages of water fluoridation, Wodonga residents were still waiting for open and face-to-face consultation with either the Victorian Health Minister Bronwyn Pike or the state’s chief medical officer Dr Robert Hall.
“No reasonable responses have been received to date, only the old and inaccurate speech which claims water fluoridation is both safe and effective even though there are plenty of scientific reports which prove the dangers of water fluoridation,” she said.Ms Edgar said among the speakers at the October 14 rally would be Nationals’ candidate for Benambra, Bill Baxter.She said the State Government’s inaction had made fluoridation a political issue and she believed it should be addressed by local candidates.

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