IT was like spying a rare Scaly-Breasted Lorikeet among the dull, fat pigeons that crap all over the lawns of Parliament.

Amid the grey flutter was a bright jewel - a piece of sensible politicking that should begin a bout of bipartisanship.

Greens Senator Richard di Natale - former GP and clearly a man of science - is planning to move a motion to disband the Australian Vaccination Network.

You know them - the most misleadingly named mob getting around.

They say they're offering information and support for people who are concerned about vaccination risks.

What they're doing is fearmongering with the best of them, overemphasising adverse reactions and underplaying the benefits of vaccination - which is one of the most effective and cheap public health measures getting around.

Banning things is not usually the best way to tackle them - in most cases of people spreading woo woo around like lorikeet guano I'd argue education is the most effective way to mop it up.

But these guys are using every trick in the book, every legal challenge, every loophole to keep spouting this muck.

And the muck is deadly, and often it's deadly to other people's kids, because it's the unvaccinated mob who are prone to passing on killer diseases to those too young or too sick to be vaccinated themselves.

They are still challenging a direction to change their name because it was found to be "misleading".

Their founder and former head Meryl Dorey is urging people to join "sham" churches to get around NSW's vaccination policy.

It's time to break up this birdbrained cabal.

Senator di Natale will move that the Senate note the low vaccination rates in parts of Australia, and the threat this poses to the health of Australian children.

He will move that the Senate notes the AVN's "irresponsible campaign … which is spreading misinformation about the risks of vaccination and discouraging parents from vaccinating their children".

And he will move that the Senate "calls on the AVN to immediately disband and cease their harmful and unscientific scare campaign against vaccines".

In short, he wants the Senate to tell the AVN to flock off, and it's well and truly time that they did.

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