3 July 2019

Majority support for No Jab, No Pay: study

Associate Professor David Smith
Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, United States Studies Centre (jointly appointed with the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney)

Joint research from the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia indicates a majority of Australians support the "No Jab, No Pay" policy. Under legislation introduced in 2016, children across the country must be fully-immunised for their parents to receive federal government payments. Co-author of the study and USSC senior lecturer Dr David Smith is quoted in this report by SBS.

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Associate Professor David Smith
Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, United States Studies Centre (jointly appointed with the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney)
David Smith is jointly appointed between the US Studies Centre and the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. His research examines political relations between states and minorities, with a focus on religion in the US. His book Religious Persecution and Political Order in the United States was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.