The realities of lockdowns and the erosion of trust in government and authority have fed into a small but significant history of anti-vaxxing in Australia, one that has found unlikely bedfellows in the QAnon conspiracy cult, white supremacy movements and the wellness community.
In Unvaxxed, the latest book in the Crikey Read series, award winning science journalist Dyani Lewis takes a nuanced, timely look at the movement and how uncertainty and misinformation have influenced the Australian experience of COVID-19.
Listen to Lewis as she chats with Crikey’s news editor Georgia Wilkins and associate editor Amber Schultz about vaccine hesitancy and her very personal account of the human fallout from vaccine refusal for families split over the issue.