Immunisation for babies and children

You'll need to book into a public immunisation session to have your child vaccinated.

Please don't attend an immunisation session if you or your child are unwell.

Book an immunisation for your child

For fact sheets on the diseases vaccines protect against, visit the Better Health Channel.

Immunisation and Family Assistance payments

To meet the requirements for family assistance payments, all of your children younger than 20 years old need to do one of the following:

• Meet the Childhood vaccination schedule on the Department of Health’s National Immunisation Program Schedule.
• Be on a suitable catch up schedule in line with the Department of Health’s current Australian Immunisation Handbook.
• Have an approved medical exemption recorded on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).

For further information visit Services Australia.

Some infectious diseases can cause serious harm to pregnant women or their unborn babies. If you are planning on starting a family we recommend you see your GP to discuss this and have your immunisation history assessed prior to becoming pregnant. All women are strongly advised to receive influenza and whooping cough vaccines during every pregnancy.

For more information visit Better Health Channel.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are at higher risk to experience complications from vaccine preventable diseases and therefore extra vaccines are available free through the National Immunisation program.

Further information can be found at Immunise Australia Program.