State of the Nation | Monday, May 22, 2017

Updated May 22 2017 - 6:54am, first published 6:51am
Pictures: Phillip Biggs

Regional news

John Hunter Hospital where the boy was taken by paramedics on Friday night and where his mother was arrested.
John Hunter Hospital where the boy was taken by paramedics on Friday night and where his mother was arrested.

►NEWCASTLE: A four-year-old boy at the centre of fervid debate about anti-vaccination and alternative medicine has been deemed “at risk of serious harm” and taken into the care of authorities, triggering impassioned outrage from supporters on social media who labelled it a “medical kidnapping”. 

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