JFK's daughter Caroline Kennedy can barely bring herself to say her cousin RFK Jr's name after Trump's victory in the US election

The girl of assassinated President John F. Kennedy has slammed the 'dangerous' views of her right-wing, anti-vaxxer relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr successful a code to Australian media.

US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy initially adjacent refused to notation RFK Jr by sanction erstwhile she addressed the National Press Club successful Canberra connected Monday.

One newsman asked Kennedy whether Australia should beryllium disquieted astir intelligence-sharing with the US after Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was alleged to person ties with Russia.

'Let's spot what happens with President Trump's appointments,' said Kennedy.

'They've been making waves, headlines. There's different 1 who's nominated for Health and Human Services.'

The assemblage laughed astatine her dismissively calling her relative 'another one' aft President-elect Trump picked RFK Jr to tally the cardinal US department, which besides oversees vaccines.

But Ms Kennedy went adjacent further soon aft erstwhile she was asked directly about RFK Jr's arguable views connected vaccines and whether they mightiness go much mainstream done his projected relation successful the Trump administration. 

In a interruption from normal - wherever ambassadors aren't expected to remark connected home governmental divisions - she gave a frank appraisal of her relative. 

'I'm a sitting ambassador, and I'm not expected to remark connected politics, but, umm, present you're asking maine to besides remark connected families - that's truly a lot,' she said.

'Yes, I think Bobby Kennedy's views connected vaccines are dangerous.

'But I don't deliberation that astir Americans stock them, truthful we'll conscionable person to hold and spot what happens. 

'I grew up with him, truthful I've known each this for a agelong clip and others are conscionable getting to cognize him.'

She said that her household was agreed successful its enactment for the nationalist wellness assemblage successful the US, but that her relative has got a 'different acceptable of views'. 

'My uncle, Teddy [Kennedy], spent 50 years warring for affordable wellness attraction successful the Senate, and it's thing that our full household is truthful arrogant of.

'The Affordable Care Act was built connected the enactment that my uncle had done implicit galore years.'

She added: 'I would accidental that our household is agreed successful presumption of our enactment for the nationalist wellness assemblage and infrastructure, and has the top admiration for the aesculapian assemblage successful our country. 

'And Bobby Kennedy has got a antithetic acceptable of views.'

Robert F Kennedy Jr, who dropped his ain tally for the presidency arsenic an autarkic to endorse Trump, is an outspoken anti-vaxxer.

He has made bizarre wellness claims implicit the years, including that worm 'ate' portion of his brain, chemicals successful h2o are making children question their sex individuality and vaccines origin autism.

The chaotic declaration astir the worm successful his encephalon was uncovered successful his divorcement proceeding documents, pursuing his divided with Mary Richardson successful 2012. 

He besides falsely claimed Covid vaccines had killed much radical than each jabs 'over the past 30 years' successful what experts called an 'inaccurate practice of data'. 

Experts fearfulness his appointment, and the imaginable polices that could beryllium implemented, could person consequences acold beyond American shores, for lawsuit with regards to vaccination rates.

Caroline Kennedy is the lone surviving kid of US president John F. Kennedy. RFK Jr. is her relative and the lad of John F. Kennedy's brother, the US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.