{"id":41668,"date":"2020-05-21T07:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=41668"},"modified":"2020-05-21T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:16:51","slug":"mp-hits-back-after-his-office-was-vandalised-by-anti-vaxxers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/mp-hits-back-after-his-office-was-vandalised-by-anti-vaxxers\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Hits Back After His Office Was Vandalised By Anti-Vaxxers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">State Labor MP and shadow health minister Chris Picton says he will not be intimidated after his Seaford Meadows office was targeted by anti-vaccination vandals over night.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Picton told FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David &amp; Will on Thursday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI noticed there were a whole lot of posters stuck to my office with an anti-vaccination message on them. People didn\u2019t come into my office to talk about it, they didn\u2019t write me a letter, they just thought they would stick a whole bunch of posters over my office, which is typical of the tactics unfortunately we sometimes see from these anti-vaccination groups.<\/p><p>\u201cI thought, I\u2019m going to call this out and say it\u2019s not intimidating me by sticking these all over my office.<\/p><p>\u201cMy job as a member of parliament is to listen to the scientists, the experts\u2026 the whole world\u2019s in crisis because we are lacking one vaccine for one virus. Imagine if we didn\u2019t have vaccines for a whole range of other things &#8211; polio, smallpox, measles, you name it &#8211; what sort of a state we\u2019d be in.<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to listen to the stuff they find on Google and I\u2019m going to listen to the scientists, the experts, the doctors.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Have you noticed we don\u2019t have cases of polio, of smallpox anymore?<br><br>It\u2019s because of scientists developing vaccines that have saved millions of lives. <br><br>You can plaster my office. You can troll my social media. You can bombard my inbox. <br><br>But you won\u2019t convince me.<br>2\/3<\/p>&mdash; Chris Picton MP (@PictonChris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PictonChris\/status\/1263060366214311936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You won\u2019t convince me that children shouldn\u2019t be vaccinated against deadly diseases.<br><br>You won\u2019t convince me that we shouldn\u2019t listen to scientists and doctors instead of whatever you\u2019ve found on the internet. <br><br>Save your posters and your propaganda for someone else.<br>3\/3<\/p>&mdash; Chris Picton MP (@PictonChris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PictonChris\/status\/1263060368105992193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Labor MP and shadow health minister Chris Picton says he will not be intimidated after his Seaford Meadows office was targeted by anti-vaccination vandals over night. Mr Picton told FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David &amp; Will on Thursday: \u201cI noticed there were a whole lot of posters stuck to my office with an anti-vaccination message on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,144],"tags":[245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-41668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will-2","category-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MP Hits Back After His Office Was Vandalised By Anti-Vaxxers - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/mp-hits-back-after-his-office-was-vandalised-by-anti-vaxxers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MP Hits Back After His Office Was Vandalised By Anti-Vaxxers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"State Labor MP and shadow health minister Chris Picton says he will not be intimidated after his Seaford Meadows office was targeted by anti-vaccination vandals over night. 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