Who we are

Queenslanders Against Water Fluoridation was formed in 2005 and obtained incorporation early in 2006 with an elected President, Treasurer and Secretary.

Our members are from all walks of life and professions, many are from the health and healing professions, including medical, and pharmaceutical. We have supporters from the Dental profession. The majority of us are parents or grandparents and we are all very conscious of not exposing our children to junk food, drinks or any potentially harmful chemicals. We understand that the key to healthy teeth is a low intake of processed food, especially that containing sugar, combined with regular cleaning/flossing and supported by regular visits to the dentist.

Through some of our own personal experiences as well as individual lengthy research of scientific publications, we had become aware of many adverse health effects associated with water fluoridation and decided that we do not wish to have fluoride chemicals added to the public water supply that we and our families and friends depend upon.

When faced with information from government agencies that misleadingly portrays water fluoridation as being safe for all citizens while governments deny it is mass medication, we formed this group to research all issues related to water fluoridation and to help relate these issues to the public and to all levels of government.

After a hiatus of nearly 30 years, just in the last 3 years across Australia we have seen an un-precedented and unjustified rush to forcibly fluoridate every remaining unfluoridated area. We have been actively lobbying state governments to not force fluoridation on the public and asking them to commence the health and safety studies that the National Health and Medical Research Council said should be done urgently as long ago as 1991.

Merilyn Haines President Dr A Macqueen Treasurer Ms J Beauchamp Secretary

B App Sc PhD Biological Sciences