Premier Bligh bites the bullet on water fluoridation
5 Dec 2007
Queenslanders will now have better oral health following today’s decision by the Premier Anna Bligh and Health Minister Stephen Robertson that the Queensland Government will take immediate steps to introduce fluoride to the state’s water supplies for communities over 1000 people. View full story.

State Government has no more excuses on water fluoridation.
31 May 2007
The Beattie Government takeover of water in south-east Queensland has removed the final excuse for avoiding a public health policy that is endorsed by the World Health Organisation, the Australian Medical Association and the Australian Dental Association. View full story.

Professor MaryLou Fleming (QUT) added to Fluoride Advocates page.
2 May 2007

No infant formula in Australia contains fluoride
16 April 2007
Bottle feeding in fluoridated areas ensures that cavity fighting benefits are still gained at the optimal safe level, but this is not the case in 95 percent of Queensland which remains unfluoridated. View full story. View full story.

Beattie in a corner as water fluoridation rises as a social justice issue
22 March 2007
The Beattie Government is under pressure as the socio-economic divide on oral health is revealing the lifetime sentence for poor, disempowered Queenslanders living in the only Australian state without widespread water fluoridation. View full story.

Bottled water fluoride debate highlights Queensland inadequacy
27 February 2007
As other Australian states lobby to provide the option of fluoride in water for the generation of bottled-water consumers, Queensland is dithering around the edges of this debate with only five percent of residents having any access to fluoridated water. View full story.

Alliance turns up the heat on oral health in action
21 January 2007
The vast majority of Queensland town and city water supplies are deficient in a naturally occurring mineral that has been identified by the World Health Organisation as being important for healthy teeth, according to the Queensland Oral Health Alliance. View full story.

Prime Minister confirms QLD in the dark ages on non-fluoridated water
3 January 2007
New Year comments by Australian Prime Minister John Howard confirm the benefits of fluoridated water and reaffirm Queensland’s ongoing failure to provide this proven public health measure for most residents. View full story.

Oral health alliance supports water fluoridation
15 December 2006
The Queensland Oral Health Alliance has affirmed its commitment to water fluoridation as a safe and effective public health measure for Queenslanders. View full story.

Fluoride fiasco a failure of political will
15 December 2006
Perspectives, Courier Mail.
There are 2000 Queensland children (aged less than six) each year with teeth so rotten they need a general anaesthetic to repair them. View full story.

Health Minister must go one step further on fluoridation
14 December 2006
Queensland Health Minister Stephen Robertson is to be commended for supporting water fluoridation as a means of improving oral health but the state government must do more to ensure its widespread introduction, according to the Australian Dental Association. View full story.

Water fluoridation the solution for dental waiting lists
13 December 2006
More than two million Queenslanders are eligible for public sector dental treatment which is expected to be delivered by only 300 dentists state-wide, more than 50 of whom are students under direct supervision and many others being transient. View full story.

University survey finds majority support for water fluoridation
5 December 2006
There is 76 percent support for water fluoridation, according to the 2006 Queensland Social Survey conducted by the Population Research Laboratory at Central Queensland University using a representative sample of the Queensland population. View full story.

Martin Webb elected to lead Queensland dentists
1 December 2006
Sunshine Coast dentist Martin Webb is the newly elected president of the Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch, the voice of dentistry that represents more than 2000 members throughout the state. View full story.

Dentists volunteer for pilot project on aged-care dental treatment
26 October 2006
Thousands of elderly Queenslanders living in aged care facilities currently have poor access to dental care, prompting dentists to set up a trial for a suitable model to provide them with appropriate oral health treatment in the longer term. View full story.

New oral health alliance bites into dental concerns
22 October 2006
Oral health issues will be championed by a new alliance formed in Brisbane last week involving the Queensland branches of the Australian Dental Association, the Australian Medical Association, the Pharmaceutical Society and the Public Health Association Australia. View full story.

Forensic dentistry in spotlight at annual dental convention
21 September 2006
Dental records, fingerprints and DNA are the three ways of identifying dead bodies, with dental records being used to identify about 60 percent of the 2004 tsunami victims in Thailand by international and Australian teams that included Australian forensic dentist Dr Alex Forrest. Dr Forrest will reflect on that experience in his Forensic Dentistry in Action: the Southern Asian Tsunami address to the Dentistry Under the Sun convention being held at the Hyatt Regency Coolum next week from 28 September – 1 October. View full story.

Proposed addition of fluoride to bottled water is telling
12 September 2006
The move by the bottled water industry to add fluoride to its product reflects the reality that fluoridated water is the most practical means of gaining the oral health benefit this mineral provides. View full story.

Children suffer chronic tooth decay without water fluoridation
3 August 2006
During 2005-2006, 121 children aged under four had such bad tooth decay they required treatment under general anaesthetic at Cairns Base Hospital according to The Cairns Post newspaper. View full story.

Australian teens are highest risk group for dental decay
31 July 2006
Dentists say the consumption of soft drinks and sport drinks is contributing to a marked decline in the dental health of Australian teenagers. View full story.

Recycled water outcome reminiscent of fluoridation debate
31 July 2006
The non-scientific and emotional scare campaign that nobbled Toowoomba’s recycled water referendum at the weekend is similar to the anti-fluoridation propaganda and misinformation that surfaces whenever this public health issue is floated for Queensland. View full story.

Tongue piercings, acidic drinks and other dental nasties
24 July 2006
Damage to teeth caused by trendy oral piercings and increasing consumption of sugary and sports drinks are contributing to a marked decline in the dental health of Australian teenagers. To help arrest this decline, a new audio-visual documentary Teeth Talk aimed at a teenage audience has been developed by the Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch in conjunction with Queensland Health. View full story.

Fluoride tablets no substitute for water fluoridation
21 July 2006
Responding to reports the National Party is discussing this issue at its conference this weekend, Dr McCray said the problem with fluoride tablets is they require strict adherence that is extremely difficult for most people, adults and children, to maintain over time. View full story.

Water fluoridation is a cost-effective preventative measure
19 July 2006
Townsville remains the only Queensland city that provides fluoridated water for its residents and research confirms its children have fewer cavities and require less dental treatment as a result, according to Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch President Robert McCray. View full story.

Leading Australian medical experts say water fluoridation is safe
21 June 2006
Water fluoridation is safe and effective, according to Australian of the Year Professor Ian Frazer and leading Australian medical professionals including 2005 Senior Queenslander Professor John Pearn, medical commentators Dr Gino Pecoraro and Dr Geraldine Moses, and Australian Medical Association Queensland President Dr Zelle Hodge. View full story.

State of Origin shows in Queenslanders' rotten teeth
14 June 2006
State of Origin takes on a whole different meaning in dentistry terms as Queensland dentists step up to the plate to barrack for fluoridation as a safe, easy and effective means of helping tackle the epidemic of tooth decay in this state, and implement the wishes of the majority. View full story.

Yass celebrates 50 years of fluoridation
2 June 2006, Published in Yass Tribune
This year we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the fluoridation of public water supplies.
Fluoridation was first introduced into mainland Australia in 1955 in Yass. The official “turning on” of the fluoridated water supply in Yass was on June 22 1956. View full story.

Warwick dentist says fluoridation would benefit young and old
30 May 2006
Dentists say water fluoridation would provide a oral health benefit for all Warwick residents vulnerable to tooth decay, including seniors as well as children and teenagers. View full story.

Day-in and day-out dentists see consequences of non-fluoridation
Robert McCray, Australian Dental Association
Letter to Warwick Daily News Letter - 18 May 2006. View full letter.

Children misled by anti-fluoridationists claims
Mike Geisel, Dentist in Warwick
Letter to Warwick Daily News - 18 May 2006. View full letter.

ADAQ corrects record on mischievous information
Paul Andrews, Australian Dental Association
Letter to Gympie Times - 16 May 2006. View full letter.

Include facts, not emotion, in water fluoridation case
Michael Foley, Australian Dental Association
Letter to the Fraser Coast Chronicle - 27 April 2006. View full letter.

Warwick dentists throw their weight behind fluoridation
27 April 2006
Warwick dentists fully support water fluoridation as a safe and effective means of improving the oral health of residents in the region, and have backed the Australian Dental Association’s ongoing efforts towards ensuring it is made available for all Queenslanders. View full story.

A breath of fresh air - editor speaks sense
Robert McCray, Australian Dental Association
Letter to Fraser Coast Chronicle - 20 April 2006. View full letter.

No country has banned fluoridation
Brad Wright, Australian Dental Association
Letter to Gympie Times - 20 April 2006. View full letter.

Queensland is dragging the chain on fluoridation
Robert McCray, Australian Dental Association -
Letter to the Warwick Daily News - 20 April 2006. View full letter.

Known anti-fluoridationist continues to muddy the water
Robert McCray, Australian Dental Association
Letter to the Sunday Mail - 6 April 2006. View full letter.

Dentists have no hidden agenda in supporting Fluoridation
Robert McCray, Australian Dental Association
Letter to The Morning Bulletin - 5 April 2006. View full letter.

Majority of NSW children have no dental caries experience
Martin Webb, Australian Dental Association - 3 April 2006. View full letter.

No valid evidence of disease link
Robert McCray, Australian Dental Association
Letter to Bundaberg Bugle - 31 March 2006. View full letter.

No country has banned water fluoridation
Robert McCray, Australian Dental Association
Letter to Fraser Coast Chronicle - 31 March 2006. View full letter.

Fluoridation is safe and beneficial at appropriate levels
29 March 2006
The Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch President Robert McCray said the Australian recommended level of fluoride to provide a safe and cost-effective oral health benefit is about 1ppm. View full story.

Dentists call on pro-fluoridation majority to become proactive
20 February 2006.
The Australian Dental Association says Queenslanders in favour of fluoridation need to become proactive in voicing their opinions to local and state representatives and in letters to newspapers if they want to bring about change on this issue. View full story.

Anti-fluoridationists must get their facts straight
Robert McCray, Australian Dental Association
Letter to the Border Mail - 13 February 2006. View full letter.