The 2005 Forster Report (read relevant pages 52-54 43kb PDF) recommended that the community be engaged in a debate about the feasibility, consequences and costs of introducing fluoride to the drinking water.
As part of the debate, Queenslanders needed to reconsider whether the minority of unwilling people should be entitled to impose the costs, risks and damage on the community which resulted from this state’s failure to ensure fluoridation was widely available.
This oral health benefit has been safely and effectively available for decades to millions of Australians living in every other capital city except Brisbane, and surveys in 2004 and 2005 showed the majority of Queenslanders wanted water fluoridation.
It was unfair for a small but noisy minority opposed to fluoridation to continue to prevent 95 percent of Queenslanders from having it on tap.
The anti-fluoridationists are disproportionately active (in writing and on air) therefore those in favour of fluoridation need to ensure their views are read and heard.
To show your support of water fluoridation, there are a number of things you can do:
Telephone or write to your local government representative and State MP to register your support for fluoridation.
Local government representatives outside Brisbane
Brisbane local councillors
State Government members
write a letter to the editor, or call radio talkback programs, and speak in favour of fluoridation whenever the subject is raised.
call the ADAQ (07 3252 9866) if you would like a Water Fluoridation – safe, easy, effective campaign sticker for your car or office.
Give Queenslanders something to smile about 