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Vaccination rates increase nationwide

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VACCINATION RATES:

NATIONWIDE

* 91 per cent of one-, two- and five-year-olds vaccinated with only 84,571 not fully vaccinated in 2014/15.

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* One-year-old children across all public health networks below the target of 95 per cent full vaccination.

STATE SNAPSHOT

* ACT has highest rates of immunisation of children under 15 months old, followed by Northern Territory and Queensland.

* NSW regions have both the best and worst rates of vaccinations in one-year-olds, with nearly one quarter not fully immunised on the state's far north coast in 2014/15.

BEST AND WORST RATE CHANGES

* Sydney was split east to west with both biggest increase in recorded one-year-old vaccinations in the city's east and the worst decreases in the country in the western suburbs.

TOP FIVE REGIONS FOR ONE-YEAR-OLD VACCINATION:

* NSW: Snowy Mountains

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* WA: Esperance

* VIC: Grampians

* NSW: Wagga Wagga

* QLD: Centenary

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BOTTOM FIVE ONE-YEAR-OLD VACCINATION:

* NSW: Richmond Valley - Coastal

* WA: Mundaring

* TAS: Huon - Bruny Island

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* NSW: Auburn

* SA: Adelaide City

SOURCE: National Health Performance Authority and The Australian Childhood Immunisation Register

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