“There are now no barriers and no excuses for not protecting yourself, your family and the rest of the community,” Health Minister Greg Hunt said, according to News.com.au.
Toni McCaffery, whose month-old daughter Dana died of whooping cough in 2009, has been lobbying for a national vaccination program ever since.
“I can’t tell you how relieved I am,” she told The Sunday Telegraph.
“This just gives us a consistent approach so no other family has to go through what we did.”
“Information is everything, you cannot protect your child from something you don’t know about,” she continued, revealing she was never warned about whooping cough when pregnant.
“Every new family will get the warning we never got. This now means we have kept our promise to our daughter.”
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