What a crazy couple of weeks it has been! Corona virus hysteria is all we seem to hear about.

For a great insight into all things Corona please watch the latest episode of The Highwire. 

Del Bigtree and his team do a great job of sorting fact from fear mongering.

For those who missed episode 26 of Under the Wire please catch up here. 

Meryl covers all the important topics of the week including the proposed mandatory vaccination policy in Victoria. 

On last week’s episode of the The Highwire, Del Bigtree revealed that the ICAN (Informed Consent Action Network) has won a lawsuit against the CDC that compelled the CDC to provide a list of the studies it relies upon to make the statement that “vaccines do not cause autism”.

Watch the segment of The Highwire about it here

In summary, the CDC only provided 20 studies, and most of those pertained to the MMR vaccine or the vaccine preservative Thiomersal.

In light of these revelations the AVN urges everyone to write to federal health minister Greg Hunt

Minister.Hunt@health.gov.au and ask what studies the Australian Government relies upon to make the claim that vaccines are not associated with autism.

Send him the link to the ICAN press release with your letter. https://www.icandecide.org/ican_press/cdc-concedes-in-federal-court-it-does-not-have-studies-to-support-its-claim-vaccines-do-not-cause-autism/ 

You can also BCC your letter to the AVN at secretary@avn.org.au

For many years our community has called for the Australian Government to conduct a vaccinated versus unvaccinated study. There has been a petition launched to compel the Australian Government to finally conduct such a study.

Please go to this link to support this vital initiative https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1356

There are almost 8000 signatures already. Make sure after you sign the petition that you click the confirmation link in your email inbox to ensure that your vote is counted.

Every vote counts so make sure that you share the petition with family and friends. This study needs to be done!

Help keep the bus running here. https://shop.avn.org.au/products/copy-of-one-off-sponsorship-of-the-avn

Neither of these issues have stopped us before, but we are asking those who would like screenings to please contact us at avnenquiries@avn.org.au to say what area you live in and how many hours you will be available to help us in organising the event. We also hope that if we do bring the screening (or a seminar) to your area, you will be able to help publicise it amongst your networks to make it as well-attended as possible.