Public Action
In June 2005, members of the creationist group Answers in Genesis – Australia debated a team from the Australian Skeptics online on Margo Kingston's web diary section of the Sydney Morning Herald website.
In response to a large increase in pertussis cases during a 2008/09 outbreak, the organization focused efforts on countering information from Meryl Dorey's Australian Vaccination Network. This included supporting a complaint lodged by a private individual, Ken McLeod, against the organization with the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission and running a national ad (funded by Dick Smith) in The Australian.
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