The Richmond-Tweed region, in northern NSW, and Cairns in Far North Queensland, can today be identified as the areas that have the highest number of conscientious objectors - or "vaccine refusers" - in Australia. On day two of The Daily Telegraph's joint campaign with The Sunday Telegraph, which calls for parents and officials to get tough on protecting children from preventable diseases, the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register has shown the proportion of youngsters with no vaccines recorded in Far North Queensland is between 5 and 8 per cent. In...
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