Ballarat Courier 24th April 2002:

Health Minister fails to answer on fluoride

Geelong Advertiser 27th April 2002:

We want answers

Moralee Champion 19th Feb 2004:

Fluoride Follies

Geelong Advertiser, 27th April, 2002.

THE Victorian people have a serious problem when questioning health matters.

The principal centre of such concerns is the Minister for Health, who is elected by the people to represent them in the privileged position of minister protecting the community's health.

As a democratic representative of the people, with a Federal and State constitution to obey, the public concern grows day by day when the minister does not answer or even acknowledge letters on health matters. This is also experienced with the Victorian Health Department. Government press releases saturate the media and their veracity is protected by the government authors refusing to debate their claims.

Since the beginning of fluoridation in Victoria the political policy of Liberal, Labour and Nationals is to ignore correspondence on fluoridation.

This results in a serious undemocratic one-wav behaviour in our parliamentary procedure, strangely adopted by all parties on fluoridation.

The unanswered question is why, on this one particular health matter, are our elected representatives acting accordingly without reference to those who voted them into parliament?

However, we do have some democratic responsible regional newspapers, otherwise we become a fully controlled political state.

G.S.R. Walker, Chairman of The Anti-Fluoridation Association of Victoria.