We analysed the public communication strategies that Australia and France used to promote childhood immunisation. There are lessons to be learned for the government’s current COVID vaccine campaign.
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Governments can do much to ensure mass vaccination of their citizens, particularly in the name of public health. But there needs to be careful examination of where that might breach human rights.
Scott Morrison sparked a debate when he said a COVID-19 vaccine would be ‘as mandatory as possible’ under the law. The PM walked back from the comment, but it raised legitimate legal questions.
If your immunisation record is incomplete, you might repeat a vaccination unnecessarily, or miss out on government support, child care, or work. So it pays to check.
In some countries, parents are fined if they don’t vaccinate their child or they have to go on a course before being granted an exemption to vaccinate. Are any of these options right for Australia?
The Commonwealth government’s “no jab, no pay” legislation is disadvantaging migrant children. Many families are having essential payments withheld despite their children being vaccinated.
Overall rates of vaccine objection have remained largely unchanged since 2001.
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Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Paediatrics and vaccinologist, Royal Childrens Hospital, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI); Associate Dean International, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic Advancement & Diversity, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Law, Member of Deakin Cyber and the Centre for Law as Protection, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Chargé de recherche, Inserm
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Associate professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Professor, Department of Philosophy, Oakland University
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Dean Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, Chair of Primary Care Research,, The University of Melbourne
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Media and Communication Scholar, Edith Cowan University
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Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne