Eighty-three per cent of Australians support the federal government’s mandatory vaccination policy according to a joint study by the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia.Â
Under legislation introduced in 2016, children across the country must be fully-immunised for their parents to receive federal government payments.
The paper's co-author David Smith, from the University of Sydney, says the study shows there is no political divide over the issue in Australia, in contrast to the United States.