Page 1547 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 27 September 1989
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Assembly. Let us do something. We have been here for a few months and nothing firm has come out of it yet. Let us just go to the issue and take the fluoride out of the water. Then have your debate, have your consultation. Let us do it properly. Let us do it over a two-year period, if necessary.
We are giving everything to committees, but let us call in the experts and do it properly because it has never been done in Australia. We will create a first in this country if we do have this committee of inquiry. I applaud your requirement to have that done, but what I am saying is: let us switch it off now. If necessary, if people believe that their teeth are going to be affected or not affected by fluoride, let us have a free issue of fluoride tablets, rinses, et cetera, from our community health areas. In this way we can keep the health of the people up. All the people now, because of this debate, will be aware and will take their fluoride tablets if they so desire.
Let me make another point: as a homoeopath I use very minute dosages of toxic and non-toxic materials, at dosages less than one part per million. They are such minute dosages that it is difficult even to resolve just what the dosage level is in those pills, but they work, and that is the point. You can have a massive effect on the health of a person with these minute dosages of toxin. What I am saying to you is that there is an effect. Let us stop doing it now.
Have your inquiry and then at the right time have a referendum. You cannot drug the people against their will without a referendum. I will fight vigorously to ensure that the public have their say in this issue. I am more public-oriented in this matter, I believe, than those who are calling the shots on the opposite side of the house, saying that they are the only ones on the side of the public. That is rubbish. I am here because I stand for the public and I refuse to be poisoned any longer. In concluding, I appeal to your sense of fair play and ask you to vote to stop this action of pollution.
Question put:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
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