The tougher enforcement powers would come with a substantial increase in fines - up from $60,000 to $1 million and 10 years' jail - and relate to any serious risk caused to public health. SA Health public health director Kevin Buckett said the new legislation would give authorities wider powers to act more quickly.

Take the vaccine or we'll detain you / bankrupt you then throw you in jail and more than likely still vaccinate you against your will ....

Awesome

The problem with laws like this, is that while they seemingly are designed to protect the public from extreme cases of negligent, infectious people, they are almost always used based on "loopholes", "intended purposes", etc. And they tend to be pulled out whenever the government wants.

Laws like this end up giving governments the right to detain people first....check them out later.

Also, this would open up the definition of infectious disease.

As a parent, if your child gets Swine Flu, are you prepared to turn said child over to the government for three months. So that the government can care for your child and have subsequently deemed you not able to?

That's really what this law can allow.

Further, once enacted, simple amendments can be made by the government, often without public knowledge or the public paying attention, to include various illnesses that will be considered worthy of detainment.

In the U.S., various amendments are done with little fanfare, and outside of ATS, nobody ever really notices. Take the recent Hate Crime Bill extension -- it was thrown in with something completely unrelated, and I guarantee you that a large percentage of Americans have no idea it was even addressed.

Lastly, are you prepared to have a family member taken away and "quarantined" by the government for as long as three months? And what then? The example of HIV / AIDS was used. You can live many years with HIV and never even look sick. If a person refuses treatment, and instead ops to live out a natural life, perhaps taking natural, holistic medicines, what then? Are they going to detain said person for years? Or, after three months, release them into the public anyway. What would this law have accomplished then?

Aussie land is a nice country.

To think people ran from europe to there thinking they where getting a good thing.

I am all for someone knowingly endangering others with infectious diseases being contained and treated. Sure there are unintended uses or loopholes but they already exist. They could just call you a terrorist and virtually detain you indefinitely.

I'm sorry but I was under the belief that Australia wasn't a communist state?

It's about time Government get their hands off EVERYTHING.

Originally posted by andy1033
Aussie land is a nice country.

To think people ran from europe to there thinking they where getting a good thing.

Alot of them fled here to here because the Nazis had been hunting them down and putting them into death camps. That was in Europe wasn't it..?

Ontopic: I do not like the idea of this as it's smacks of power mongering.. but at least it's not a federal plan. I also highly doubt such a bill would get passed as it would cause a huge public backlash.

I do agree if there is serious disease like the black plague that there'd have to be some sort of quarentine.. but imo swine flu and measles isn't serious enough to warrent such drastic measures.