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IFIN BULLETIN 878: Melbourne waking up.

November 13, 2003.

 

 

Dear All,

 

We have just received this email from David McRae from Geelong, Australia.

Geelong is located about an hour from Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, which

has been fluoridated for 26 years. However, the efforts of the state to spread

its poison to other cities like Ballarat may be backfiring as people in

Melbourne are beginning to hear the arguments filtering back to them from these

threatened communities. A key to this reawakening maybe the involvement of the

Green Party which has been so important in this battle in the UK, Ireland and

more recently in New Zealand.

 

Thanks for your bulletin, David!

 

Paul Connett.

 

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Dear Paul

 

As you know, we may have won a small victory here in Geelong in the state of

Victoria, close to the huge fluoridated city of Melbourne. After a year and half

of submissions to government and public meetings and copious letters to local

papers, the local members of Parliament have announced to the press that they

have told the Health Minister to back off (you have already done a bulletin on

this). The people of Geelong do not want fluoride, the MP told the minister. We

don't know what the minister thinks of that, but it may be a sort of reprieve,

however short.

 

The Health Minister's 'excessive urge to fluoridate', however, has moved to the

city of Ballarat, and the Yarra Valley, the far eastern outer fringe of

Melbourne. An area of vineyards, orchards and rural living. Hopefully local

people there will organise and stand up for their right to safe & clean water on

tap.

 

Last weekend, Nov 8 & 9, a sign emerged in Melbourne that people may be awaking

and stirring against the scourge of fluoridation that has been imposed on them,

with no account of public opinion, for 26 years.

 

Mr Phillip Day, health writer and lecturer from England, presented three public

seminars, to a total audience of about 2000 people. He speaks on a range of

topics related to hopeful health and medical methodologies that are largely kept

from the general public due to lack of commercial benefits for doctors or drug

companies. He also speaks about health hazards to avoid in the home and the

general environment.

 

He devoted some time to the awful history, politics and toxicity of water

fluoridation. He told the audiences about the victory that the people down the

road in Geelong had achieved - that they were to stay 'fluoride free'! In the

seminar I attended he then asked the audience: " How many of you want to get rid

of fluoridation in Melbourne? " To a person the audience waved their arms in the

air and roared: " Yes ! "

 

From that seminar alone some 300 hundred people signed up a petition or an

address list to be part of a campaign. Unfortunately there was insufficient

forms at all the lectures, but over the weekend about 600 people signed up.

Genevieve O'Connell and friends in Melbourne are leading a campaign, and trying

to involve the Greens who are showing much interest. Of course Melbourne has

always had an 'anti fluoridation' association, headed up by Mr Glen Walker,

author of the 1970s classic 'Fluoridation: Poison on Tap'.

 

But the signs are good that people are fed up, and after too many years of

resignation to fluoridation, are getting ready to act for their rights. The

state of Victoria, of course, has for years had the draconian Fluoridation

legislation that gives water suppliers indemnity against claims for harm caused

by their toxic water, just like the British Parliament is right now trying to

introduce.

 

I can't say at this stage what shape the movement for clean, safe water in

Melbourne will take, or what the next step is. I am most happy to answer

people's enquiries and connect them to the Melbourne group. I won't include

their details here as I don't have their permission (this message is sent on the

spur of the moment after reading about the outrageous move passed by the British

Parliament, and the distorted arguments used by the head of the British Dental

Association to justify his support of mass fluoride medication of the

population).

 

My feeling is that it is time for the great fortress of Melbourne's fluoridation

to crumble. There has always been much rotten about it. The so called " public

consultation " back in the 70s was a complete sham and so was the government

enquiry into fluoridation. The Chairman of ICI, the chemical company which first

supplied the fluoride chemicals, was the brother of the Premier of the day, the

politician who approved fluoridation. Senior dental figures like Philip Sutton,

Sir Arthur Amies (previous Dean of Dentistry at Melbourne University) and the

highly respected dental surgeon Geoffrey Smith, were silenced or ignored by the

enquiries.

 

I remember 5 months ago, Paul, when you visited the government's senior medical

advisor on fluoridation, Dr Paul Van Buynder. You asked him to give his opinion

on the research on fluoride and the pineal gland (Luke, 1997, 2001), and on the

Alarcon-Herrera et al (2001) study in Mexico correlating dental fluorosis and

bone fractures. He hadn't heard of them. You had to ask his secretary to write

down the references, because he wasn't asking. He seemed to know almost nothing

about the subject other than the kind of spin and waffle that you see in Dental

Association factsheets.

 

So that is what the public is up against: entrenched ignorance and 'Spin' (and

vested interests, of course). But I don't think that combination can stand up

forever if people are starting to get informed and angry.

 

By the way, Phillip Day is still doing his tour around Australia. It is not too

late to get to one of his talks, and perhaps he can facilitate the connecting up

of fluoridation opponents in other cities. Brisbane is November 22 & 23. For

info on seminars and booking: www.credence.org.

 

All the best

 

David McRae

 

 

 

 

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