Is the Health Australia Party a sick joke?
24th June 2016
An anti-vax, anti-fluoride and pro-homeopathy party has won a prominent spot on the NSW Senate ballot paper, much to the chagrin of proponents of mainstream medicine.
The ironically named Health Australia party (HAP) is simply the Natural Medicine Party under a different guise, argues Dr Simon Hendel in MJA Insight.
And its renaming is misleading in the extreme, he