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The powers that protect vaccination interests

http://avn.org.au/nocompulsoryvaccination/?p=467

Wooldridge was no friend to either myself or the AVN. In his

tenure as Minister for Health of Australia, when faced with 5 reported

deaths from vaccination during a 19 month period (6/6/97-1/1/99), he

stated that, ‘It’s more likely your child will die because of a

meteorite falling from space than die from immunisation’.

When interveiewed recently (October 2009) by the Australian, ‘A FORMER

federal health minister has dismissed as *“crackpots and conspiracy

theorists” those who would actively discourage Australians from having

their swine flu vaccine*.’ In the same interview, he was quoted as

stating that, ‘”Their message is poisonous and insidious … they sow

seeds of doubt in the public’s mind about what is essentially *the

single greatest advance in public health in the last 200 years*,”

Wooldridge is probably more famous for the way in which he left

government then for anything he actually did whilst in office.

Immediately upon resigning his position, he took up a very lucrative

position as a paid drug company lobbyist whose job it was – yes, believe

it or not – to lobby government on behalf of big pharma. As a result of

his actions, new regulations were put into place to require a minimum

time period between when a public official leaves office and when they

are allowed to work for someone whose business fell within the purview

of their former portfolio...

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