Waubra Foundation

The Waubra Foundation is an advocacy group for properly conducted, multidisciplinary research into health problems reported by people living in the vicinity of wind turbines and other industrial uses. The foundation is named after the town of Waubra, Victoria Australia, but is not linked to it in any other way. The town is home to the 128 turbine Waubra Wind Farm.

The foundation is an advocate for protection of public health and properly sited energy sources, especially wind turbines which have been claimed to cause harm to people, domestic and wild animals living in too-close proximity to the impacts, which include infrasound, low-frequency noise and audible noise.

The Foundation was originally known as the 'Waubra Disease Foundation' after claims that health problems reported by some residents of Waubra were caused by wind turbines.

In November 2013, Senator Richard Di Natale, health spokesperson for the Australian Greens, and former General Practitioner, lodged a written complaint with both the Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commissioner and the Australian Tax Office regarding the Waubra Foundation qualifying as a health promotion charity, on the basis that the foundation’s claims are false and misleading and that they may actually be causing harm. On December 11, 2014 the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) revoked the foundation’s registration as a health promotion charity. David Locke, the Assistant Commissioner of the ACNC concluded,"It is not possible for me to find that the Foundation's principal activity promotes the prevention or control of disease in human beings,".

The foundation was named after the "Waubra disease" reported by some residents of the town. Other than its name, the Waubra Foundation has no links to the township of Waubra, Victoria Australia.

The Waubra Foundation has claimed that wind turbines have a mental and physical health impact on some people, largely as a result of infrasound.

In 2009 the term Wind Turbine Syndrome was coined to encompass the broad range of symptoms described by complainants living near turbines. The Foundation has published reports from sufferers of wind turbine syndrome symptoms living as far away as 17 kilometres from the nearest turbine.

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