media representation

A must-see documentary: ‘Manufactured Crisis – HPV, Hype & Horror’

Sixteen year-old girls are going into ovarian dysfunction. Let me put that clearly for you in simple terms. That means a sixteen-year-old girl is going into menopause which is criminal. — A passionate mother speaking in Manufactured Crisis – HPV, Hype & Horror There is no other industry in this world that has that kind of protection. They make their products not subject to any legal liability and then they […]

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‘Sacrifical Virgins’ documentary doubly honoured

 Sacrificial Virgins a documentary film trilogy – which investigates widespread global concerns over the safety of  HPV vaccines,  Gardasil and Cervarix has won 2 awards for investigative journalism: The prestigious  Best of the Festival award and the Watchdog Spirit Award at the Watchdog Film Festival, held in Brisbane, Australia. Festival founder, director, and investigative journalist James Hyams said: “Shenton’s thorough, transnational investigation in search of truth and justice deserves recognition and thus the Watchdog Film Festival […]

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Teens diagnosed with MS after Gardasil

In 2015 a Scandinavian study  found no increased risk for Multiple Sclerosis or demyelinating disease among 4 million females, of whom 800,000 received the HPV vaccination. But at a recent forum in San Diego researchers presented two cases of multiple sclerosis (MS) that had developed in teenagers after receiving Gardasil the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The study author Ye Hu reported on 2 teens who experienced MS symptoms 1 to 2 weeks after receiving the vaccination. A […]

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ABC’s Media Watch bullies Northern Rivers newspaper into changing its headline

  The Northern Star has been in the business of bringing news to the people of the Northern Rivers since 1876. It’s about us  page informs that it focuses strongly on readers, with stories told through the eyes, ears and mouths of local people. And that’s what it did when it ran ‘Teen left in wheelchair after Gardasil HPV vaccine ‘reaction’. However the story about teenager Olivia Odey now has a new headline ‘Teen’s […]

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Daddy, what did you do in the war?

  Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War? Taken from Chiaroscuro, Melbourne award-winning poet Sandy Jeff’s new book in which she explores the tension of a world that is a place full of dark and light and where humour and sadness intermingle in a show that must go on.       The Sergeant Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War Well, darling, I saw the young men come […]

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Anzac Day, Propaganda, and the Making of Endless Wars

  Anzac Day will soon be upon us and publicity surrounding the centenary has reached fever pitch. But what is really going on? Last wednesday, I attended a forum Anzac Day: Past, Present and Future   held at the Camberwell Civic Centre where Professors Joe Camilleri and Marilyn Lake were joined by Ted Baillieu, Serdar Baycan, Neil Smith and Claire Chisholm in an ABC-style Q&A discussion on the history and future of Anzac […]

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Free speech – not on vaccination it seems!

A SOCIAL media campaign is in progress to stop an American anti-vaccination campaigner running a series of lectures in Australia in March. Following on from the success of a campaign which resulted in the cancellation of the misogynist Julien Blanc’s visa, pro-vaccination activists are calling on the immigration department to have Dr Sherri Tenpenny’s visa cancelled because she speaks about the harms associated with vaccines. Dr Sherri Tenpenny has planned […]

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Raw milk madness!

  The Herald Sun has reported that a three-year-old Mornington Peninsula child has died and four other young children have become seriously ill in recent weeks after drinking unpasteurised milk  sold in Victoria. The reports of this death and injuries were accompanied by screaming headlines in both large font and capital letters KILLER MILK, and the next day Cosmetic milk controversy: State in grip of toxic milk madness. Let’s put this death […]

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I am feminist: Hear me roar!

 If you hear that word one more time, you will definitely cringe. You may exhale pointedly. And you might even seek out the nearest the pair of chopsticks and thrust them through your own eardrums like straws through plastic lids. What word is this? You tell us, Katy Steinmetz wrote, urging readers of Time Magazine to vote in the 2015 annual word banishment poll. ‘Feminist’ along with words such  as ‘disrupt’ and […]

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