The Church of Conscious Living is an Australian anti-vaccination organisation founded in 2015 to circumvent vaccination policy for childcare and play schemes.
The organisation was established by anti-vaccinationist Stephanie Messenger[1] and promoted by the Australian Vaccination Network in order to exploit an exemption in the Australian "No Jab, No Play" policy for publicly supported childcare and play schemes.
The policy only allows unvaccinated children to be enrolled in childcare if parents cite religious objections.
[3] Virologist David Hawkes described the group as a "devious sham",[1] and investigation by the Telegraph found that no real church in Australia had any doctrinal objection to vaccination.
McDonald specifically identified the Church of Conscious Living, describing "spurious religious exemptions" as being open to abuse and exploitation in the legislation as then (May 2013) proposed, saying: "Today, sadly, we have already seen an attempt by the Australian Vaccination Network—it should be called the Australian anti-vaccination network—to exploit the loophole in these new vaccination laws by encouraging their supporters to join the Church of Conscious Living and avoid the New South Wales Government's vaccination legislation".