Saturday, May 20, 2006
NSW Fluoridation of Public Waters ACT 1957/1989 implications
The Hastings Safe Water Association
43 Willow Crescent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602 tmackay@tsn.cc
18/5/06
Dear Editor,
I was not surprised to read that Richmond Valley Councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday to “flick-pass” responsibility for fluoridating the local water supply to NSW Health.
They would have known of the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act 1957 -amended in 1989 by Peter Collins when they voted on this issue. If they did not make themselves aware of this act then your Councillors have not done their job properly.
What this act means (see 6a) (1) The Secretary may, by notification published in the Gazette (gov.) direct a water supply authority to add Fluorine to a public water supply (2) A direction may be given only if the water supply authority (YOUR Council) has referred the question of Fluoridating the public water supply to the secretary for consideration and the secretary has received the advice of the Committee as regards the question…. (5) Any water supply authority contravening a direction or any terms attached to the direction is guilty of an offence against this Act.
All Councillors would have been aware that once they asked for “Advice” from the Health Dept… and their Advisory Committee, using that precise word “Advice”, they had in fact handed over responsibility legally on the issue of Fluoridation.
We researched that Advisory Committee in 2004 and 100% hundred percent of the so-called “independent” Committee are pro Fluoridation.We have that list of Committee members here, and the backgrounds of all of them.
Dr Peter Hill the Chairman is the Acting Chief Dental Officer with the NSW Department of Health. He has been publicly pro Water Fluoridation and was closely involved in our Fluoridation referendum in the Hastings in 1991. We have a news clipping of him extolling the virtues of Fluoridation way back then and he has since been promoted within the department.
Dr Graham Craig is Associate Professor of Dentistry at Sydney University and has been actively promoting Fluoridation for some time and is one of the most known Fluoride promoters in NSW. How our Councillors missed his CV is impossible to guess.
Dr Diana Hart is the Northern Area Representative of the Australian Medical Association. The AMA actively promotes and endorses Fluoridation right across Australia and has been very active here in the Hastings in all Fluoridation debates, promoting Water Fluoridation.
Dr Shanti Sivaneswaran is the Principal Oral Health Advisor for the NSW Health Department and was up here in Port Macquarie promoting Water Fluoridation and making pro Fluoridation statements to the Port Macquarie News (see 21/4/04). She said at the Tele Conference earlier this year that “those who don’t want Fluoride can go out and buy Water Filters”.
Mr Bill Ho is with the Public Works Department and the Manager of Fish Water Supply with the Land and Conservation Department of NSW - a NSW Government Department and unlikely to be free to speak out against Government policy of Fluoridation.
Cr. Jack Mallon from the Cowra Council, who is the Local Government Representative on this committee. When spoken to he said that he didn’t have any expertise, but relied on other members of the committee for technical advice, such as the AMA member and Dental Professor. A bit of a Claytons member!
The Advisory Committee is the final door of a trap designed by the NSW Health Department to take away our freedom of choice and to render powerless local Councils. The Committee’s sole purpose is to add respectability to what has to be one of the worst abuses of democracy we have ever witnessed. The outcome of that Committee has never been in doubt. They will decide to Fluoridate and that is their purpose.
Your Councillors did not have to vote in the manner they did. They all had a choice. They chose to hand over full responsibility for Water Fluoridation, ignoring the Council run referendums and polls run in past decades. Nobody forced them to, and they should have come to you the people before even contemplating such an abuse of Human rights.
The Hastings Safe Water Association spoke with an official, a Mr Hill, in his capacity as a specialist on the UN Covenant, from the Attorney General’s Office in Canberra in 2004 on this issue. In particular, discussion concerned Article 7 which says in part, “…In particular, no one shall be subjected, without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation”. Mr Hill said that this article is an attempt to out law practices such as State sanctioned medical or scientific experimentation on people without their “Informed Consent. ”He went on to say “Consent must be given on a free and proper basis, knowing full well what the person is consenting to as distinct from consent that was given without the person having full knowledge of all the facts.”
The Health Department itself has stated they are still doing research on Fluoridation; therefore Fluoridation itself is still an experiment.
Its now up to all residents to become well informed on what this will mean to you, to your children and to the environment. Please take the time if you are on the net to look at these Australian sites and fight this armed with up to date and factual information which the Health Department have no defence against http://ccpwa.sitesled.com/
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay President of the Hastings Safe Water Association
43 Willow Crescent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602 tmackay@tsn.cc
18/5/06
Dear Editor,
I was not surprised to read that Richmond Valley Councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday to “flick-pass” responsibility for fluoridating the local water supply to NSW Health.
They would have known of the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act 1957 -amended in 1989 by Peter Collins when they voted on this issue. If they did not make themselves aware of this act then your Councillors have not done their job properly.
What this act means (see 6a) (1) The Secretary may, by notification published in the Gazette (gov.) direct a water supply authority to add Fluorine to a public water supply (2) A direction may be given only if the water supply authority (YOUR Council) has referred the question of Fluoridating the public water supply to the secretary for consideration and the secretary has received the advice of the Committee as regards the question…. (5) Any water supply authority contravening a direction or any terms attached to the direction is guilty of an offence against this Act.
All Councillors would have been aware that once they asked for “Advice” from the Health Dept… and their Advisory Committee, using that precise word “Advice”, they had in fact handed over responsibility legally on the issue of Fluoridation.
We researched that Advisory Committee in 2004 and 100% hundred percent of the so-called “independent” Committee are pro Fluoridation.We have that list of Committee members here, and the backgrounds of all of them.
Dr Peter Hill the Chairman is the Acting Chief Dental Officer with the NSW Department of Health. He has been publicly pro Water Fluoridation and was closely involved in our Fluoridation referendum in the Hastings in 1991. We have a news clipping of him extolling the virtues of Fluoridation way back then and he has since been promoted within the department.
Dr Graham Craig is Associate Professor of Dentistry at Sydney University and has been actively promoting Fluoridation for some time and is one of the most known Fluoride promoters in NSW. How our Councillors missed his CV is impossible to guess.
Dr Diana Hart is the Northern Area Representative of the Australian Medical Association. The AMA actively promotes and endorses Fluoridation right across Australia and has been very active here in the Hastings in all Fluoridation debates, promoting Water Fluoridation.
Dr Shanti Sivaneswaran is the Principal Oral Health Advisor for the NSW Health Department and was up here in Port Macquarie promoting Water Fluoridation and making pro Fluoridation statements to the Port Macquarie News (see 21/4/04). She said at the Tele Conference earlier this year that “those who don’t want Fluoride can go out and buy Water Filters”.
Mr Bill Ho is with the Public Works Department and the Manager of Fish Water Supply with the Land and Conservation Department of NSW - a NSW Government Department and unlikely to be free to speak out against Government policy of Fluoridation.
Cr. Jack Mallon from the Cowra Council, who is the Local Government Representative on this committee. When spoken to he said that he didn’t have any expertise, but relied on other members of the committee for technical advice, such as the AMA member and Dental Professor. A bit of a Claytons member!
The Advisory Committee is the final door of a trap designed by the NSW Health Department to take away our freedom of choice and to render powerless local Councils. The Committee’s sole purpose is to add respectability to what has to be one of the worst abuses of democracy we have ever witnessed. The outcome of that Committee has never been in doubt. They will decide to Fluoridate and that is their purpose.
Your Councillors did not have to vote in the manner they did. They all had a choice. They chose to hand over full responsibility for Water Fluoridation, ignoring the Council run referendums and polls run in past decades. Nobody forced them to, and they should have come to you the people before even contemplating such an abuse of Human rights.
The Hastings Safe Water Association spoke with an official, a Mr Hill, in his capacity as a specialist on the UN Covenant, from the Attorney General’s Office in Canberra in 2004 on this issue. In particular, discussion concerned Article 7 which says in part, “…In particular, no one shall be subjected, without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation”. Mr Hill said that this article is an attempt to out law practices such as State sanctioned medical or scientific experimentation on people without their “Informed Consent. ”He went on to say “Consent must be given on a free and proper basis, knowing full well what the person is consenting to as distinct from consent that was given without the person having full knowledge of all the facts.”
The Health Department itself has stated they are still doing research on Fluoridation; therefore Fluoridation itself is still an experiment.
Its now up to all residents to become well informed on what this will mean to you, to your children and to the environment. Please take the time if you are on the net to look at these Australian sites and fight this armed with up to date and factual information which the Health Department have no defence against http://ccpwa.sitesled.com/
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay President of the Hastings Safe Water Association
# posted by Middle Child @ Saturday, May 20, 2006 
