Australian parents tell of concerns and hesitance after reporting hearing misinformation about vaccines ...

Child vaccination has been one of Australia's biggest success stories. Before the COVID pandemic, we hit the national target ...

Australia has recorded its highest number of whooping cough infections since records began, as vaccine rates fall nationwide.

Childhood immunisation rates in Australia are at a 10 year low, as the nation emerges from a record breaking surge in whooping cough cases. Australia reported more than 57 000 cases of pertussis in ...

One of the world’s most contagious diseases — capable of infecting as many as 18 people from a single case — is on the rise again, a decade after it was wiped out in Australia.

A "potentially catastrophic" decline in Australia's childhood vaccination rates has contributed to the sharpest increase in cases of whooping cough in 35 years, infectious diseases experts say.

10,000 families participating in research by The Kids Research Institute Australia have demonstrated the effectiveness of a simple text message for increasing the number of children receiving their ...