Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Thankfully, immunisation rates in Australia are high and the vast majority of Australian parents and families do the right thing. Around 93 per cent of five-year-old children are fully vaccinated. But there remain pockets of our communities where vaccination rates are too low to meet the third immunity requirements to really have full confidence in safety. It is these areas of low coverage which pose risks to the community, especially to those people and especially those young children who may not be able to be vaccinated such as newborns or those with medical reasons.

Last weekend the Turnbull government launched the new Get the Facts about Immunisation campaign to encourage Australian parents and carers to get their kids vaccinated and to ensure that the falsehoods and the mistruths spread by antivaxxers are fully countered with an authoritative government message that makes clear the benefits of vaccination not just to your own child but to children who they may be playing with and living alongside.