Nearly 2/3 of the Australian population receives fluoride in their water supply. Yet only 4% of the worlds water supply is artificially fluoridated. This occurs mainly in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Columbia and Singapore. Many countries and cities have abandoned fluoridation because they have found that there is no evidence to demonstrate that tooth decay rates are lower than in non-fluoridated places or that it is safe. Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluorosilicic Acid , hazardous industrial waste by-products from the manufacture of phosphate fertiliser are used to fluoridate our water supply. Melbourne began fluoridation in 1977 despite scientific opposition from Sir Weary Dunlop and former Dean of Dentistry Sir Arthur Amies.

Professor Paul Connett is among the worlds leading experts on fluoridation. He graduated from Cambridge University holding a PhD in chemistry from Dartmouth College. Since 1983 he has been professor of chemistry at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York where he teaches environmental chemistry and toxicology. He has written extensively on waste management and his most recent publication is the booklet, A Citizens Agenda for Zero Waste co-authored with Bill Sheehan of the Grass Roots Recycling Network. He helped found the Fluoride Action Network in the US. He spoke at a seminar titled "Fluoride. What are you Drinking?" held at RMIT's Kaleide Theatre in Melbourne in October 2004. He was introduced by Scott Kinnear, Chairperson of the Genethics Network.