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Government coercion repeal 'No Jab No Pay' for ethical, informed medical choices and parental rights

The No Jab No Pay policy unjustly withholds benefits from unvaccinated families, using financial coercion for medical compliance. This undermines informed consent, personal choice, and trust in public health. Repeal is essential.

By news@gippsland - 27th March 2025 - Back to News

The government's No Jab No Pay policy - which withholds the Family Tax Benefit Part A supplement and childcare subsidies from families who choose not to vaccinate their children in accordance with the national schedule is unreasonable, unethical and unconscionable in a free and democratic country like ours.

The No Jab No Pay policy unfairly withholds benefits from unvaccinated families, using financial coercion that undermines choice, ethics, and democracy

Medical choice rights

And it's the only law in the world that ties a person's access to government social support payments to compliance with a medical procedure! Welfare payments being used as coercive leverage against parents for personal health choices, targeting parents least able to absorb a loss of payments, punishing young families, single parents, and low-income Australians who are already doing it tough.

Coercion is not good policy - it's lazy and unethical governance. It erodes trust in public health and undermines informed decision-making - two cornerstones of safe and ethical healthcare. But it seems daring to question a doctor about vaccines - how safe is it? What's in it? has it been tested? is seen as a radical and extremist concept.

You'd have thought the ability to have a conversation - weigh risks and benefits - and decline a medical product without facing fear of financial reprisal from your own government would be the automatic right of any person or parent - and not just a right, but encouraged!

Health freedom matters

We must be better than this! We must stand for informed consent, not enforced compliance. We must return to a framework where health decisions are personal, not political - and where families are not punished for asking questions.

Repealing No Jab No Pay is not an anti-vaccine position. It's a pro-choice, pro-ethics position. The government should never hold your child's welfare hostage to your medical decisions. The line has been crossed and it's well past time we drew it back.

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