They have been involved with the development of Commonwealth health policy. Legislation will shortly replace the privacy commission within this department with the NSW Privacy Commissioner. However, health and medical records will remain high priority for the Commission's Office. Those members who have privacy concerns over Centrelink, The Immunisation Register, Medicare, Schools, Conscientious Objection Forms etc should take a leaf out of Sheilas book and put pen to paper. Here we have a group who is concerned about privacy and may benefit our cause in the long term.
Letters do have an effect.
The department has again been misleading child care service providers about the requirement to claim childcare assistance. Please be aware of your facts and investigate before accepting what someone else tells you. The procedure to claim is just different. Firstly you must decide whether you wish to vaccinate your child or not. Then, take it to a doctor and ask him to sign it as you have decided to become a conscientious objector to vaccination.