A candidate from this year’s RACGP election has been cautioned for sharing a social media post that described COVID-19 vaccination as “so safe you have to be threatened to take it”.  

But Dr Julian Fidge, who received 390 of the 6400 primary votes in the college election, argues his aim was to “engage with the vaccine-hesitant in order to get them vaccinated”, and he is taking his legal fight to the Supreme Court of Victoria.