Victoria’s health minister, Jill Hennessy, has praised the scrapping of an anti-vaccination documentary from the program of a regional film festival.
Organisers of the Castlemaine documentary film festival announced this week that the discredited documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe, would be a part of its line-up.
In a statement the organisers said since announcing the screening: “Our community-based film festival has suffered a campaign of highly coordinated abuse and intimidation.
Since then it has faced a backlash from the public, including from health experts who said screening the film was irresponsible and risked spreading false information.