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Gympie Mayor Glen Hartwig (Photo: GRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 24, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

A split Gympie Regional Council has voted to remove fluoride from the Gympie region’s water supply.<\/p>\n

A decision about fluoride has been dogging the GRC since it received a petition last year demanding that it be removed.<\/p>\n

The petition, apparently co-ordinated by the My Place Gympie group, attracted 650 signatures although many were from outside the GRC region.<\/p>\n

At Wednesday’s Council meeting, Councillors voted 5-3 to remove fluoride.<\/p>\n

Voting for the motion were Mayor Glen Hartwig and councillors Shane Warnes, Allona Lahn, Warren McEwan and Gordon Maudsley.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cr Lahn unsuccessfully ran in State and Federal elections for the Informed Medical Options Party (IMOP), now known as Heart, which opposed vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor Dolly Jensen, Mick Curran and Warren Polley voted to keep fluoride.<\/p>\n

Cr Jess Milne left the room and did not vote.<\/p>\n

Queensland councils were forced to fluoridate town water supplies in 2008 after the Bligh Government\u2019s Water Fluoridation Act made the practice mandatory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the LNP took power, the Newman Government handed the decision back to councils.<\/p>\n

Fluoride was removed from the South Burnett’s reticulated water supplies in 2013.<\/p>\n

At the time, Council said the decision was partly as a cost-saving measure, and partly because few people drink the water anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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