“He passed away when he was 32 days old,” Hughes recalled.

“My son would likely be alive today if everyone in my community had been fully vaccinated against whooping cough.”

Now, a Herald and Age investigation reveals parents are boasting about paying anti-vaccine doctors and nurses to falsify Medicare records to enrol their children in childcare and fraudulently claim government payments.

IMO those parents should really be facing reckless endangerment charges and having their children removed from their “faux” care and the medical practitioners the same.

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    The best way is to figure out who they are, by maybe posing as an interested parent, and then report to their respective licensing boards.

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      I’d hope the consequences were more severe than loss of licensure. Intentional malfeasance ought to be punishable by something.

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    If facts don’t mean anything to these people and they are on the hunt for dodgy docs, I am sure FACS/DCJ will love to have a word with them.

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    I’m struggling to believe there’s such a thing as an “anti-vax doctor”. That’s a classic oxymoron.

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      Despite popular opinion being a doctor doesn’t mean you’re intelligent, it means you passed.