Australia to withhold payments from parents against vaccine

The Australian government is ramping up pressure on parents who oppose vaccination by threatening to withhold child care and other payments from families that fail to immunize their children. The government announced this week that families could lose up to 15,000 Australian dollars per child per year in tax and child care benefits from Jan. 1, 2016, unless their children are vaccinated under a “no jab, no pay” policy.