White supremacists groups from the US are spreading vaccine misinformation to Aboriginal communities because they "want to harm" them, Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan says.
The premier attended a roundtable of community leaders from the state's Goldfields region on Thursday, and said he learned false information was being spread via social media to Aboriginals.
The information was found to have originated from the extremist groups in America.
"At the meeting just now we heard from one Aboriginal person who said white supremacist groups are sending information to Aboriginal people that they shouldn't get vaccinated," McGowan told reporters.
"Now, the suspicion is these white supremacist groups out of America wouldn't be unhappy if bad outcomes occurred to the health of Aboriginal people in Australia.