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A dctor injecting a young child with a vaccination

Anti-vax parents share tips online on how to flout no jab, no play childcare laws

Experts have raised the alarm about anti-vaccine networks sharing tactics for skirting Victoria’s no jab, no play laws, while immunisation rates among children continue to decline.

  • Nicole Precel and Henrietta Cook

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Pete Evans and Robert F. Kennedy Jnr in Los Angeles in 2020.

Former celebrity chef Pete Evans to publish cookbook with RFK Jr

The book will be published by Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defence, an organisation known as one of the country’s largest anti-vaccine groups.

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Simeon Boikov has organised upcoming protests against an Indigenous Voice to parliament from the Russian consulate in Sydney.

Anti-Voice rallies organised by pro-Putin conspiracy theorist

The official No campaign has distanced itself from this weekend’s rallies, which have been organised by Simeon Boikov – known online as “the Aussie Cossack”.

  • Matthew Knott, Sherryn Groch and Paul Sakkal
Anthony Fauci has taken up a university teaching role and is writing his memoir after retiring from his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he became the public face of America’s coronavirus response.

Anthony Fauci on Australia’s COVID response, AI and the next pandemic

The man who became the face of the US coronavirus response says the real global death toll is likely closer to 20 million people, and there are lessons we must not forget from the pandemic.

  • Angus Thomson
Confidence in childhood vaccines has declined globally since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Confidence in childhood vaccines declines in Australia, worldwide

Scientists are concerned anti-vaccine sentiment stoked during the pandemic might have a “spillover effect” on support for childhood and other adult vaccines.

  • Angus Thomson
Dr John Cook’s “Cranky Uncle” game teaches people to identify the ways in which conspiracy theories and misinformation spread.

Meet the cranky uncle ‘vaccinating’ people against conspiracies

Facts are often useless in the face of conspiratorial thought. So what can help convince a conspiracy theorist to change their beliefs?

  • Angus Dalton

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