WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP ?????
Please copy and paste the information below and request your Federal MP to read Submission # 4 Senate Inquiry 2025
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Tick-bornediseases
Be familiar with the
- 3 page summary
Share what has been achieved by TiARA;
https://www.tiara.org.au/submission-to-the-parliament-inquiry
Actions requested of your Federal MP:
QR code “How to safely remove a tick” to be sent out in Electorate Newsletter (as below)
Your Federal MP to join Parliamentary Friends of Allergy (to contact Rebecca White MP or Dr Mike Freelander MP) and combine with Dr Sophie Scamps MP and Zali Steggall MP and Nicolette Boele MP all of whom represent electorates with the highest prevalence world-wide to request from Health Minister Butler a public health awareness campaign pitched somewhere between The Grim Reaper and Slip, Slop, Slap. Ticks not a problem for humans in Minister Butler’s electorate.
Don’t worry about not eating meat- it’s the medical and dental implications that are the real problem for people.
Coronary artery disease cost in our Northern LHD alone is estimated at $1.2 million per annum preventable (no tick bite, no problem).
10 deaths and counting from tick-induced allergies!
113/100,000 in 2018
744/100,000 in 2025
USA only just approaching our 2018 numbers
40% year on year increased
All six continents, 42 countries (as of September 2025 from one continent Australia and 1 country in 2007).
