Harsh penalties on Aussies returning from India 'invoked under Biosecurity Act' | Sky News Australia

The decision to impose harsh penalties on Australians who breach the travel ban from India was not made by the government but activated under the Biosecurity Act, according to Liberal Senator Jane Hume. Anyone who has spent time in India within 14 days of their intended arrival date in Australia could face a $66,000 fine and a five-year jail term for breaking the travel ban.

“That’s a function of the Biosecurity Act which is what was invoked by the chief medical officer’s advice,” Ms Hume said. “This is not what anybody wants, we want to see Australians returned home but we want to see it done safely. We know that we could see our quarantine facilities becoming overwhelmed by cases from India. “We saw that 57 per cent of positive cases were from returned travellers from India, up from only 10 per cent the week before and that was really what prompted this.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

SenatorHume Aussies can no longer even go home? Australia has no regard for the lives of its own people than China? What about human rights in Australia?

SenatorHume Hume, who woulda thought, just another maker of 🐂💩 excuses

SenatorHume Isn’t it Labor’s fault? Must be somehow.

SenatorHume No one can stop anyone leaving. But you don't have the right come back breaking rules. And that also goes for cricketers who went to play in India on contracts.

SenatorHume Minister talks out of his arse and sky reports as fact. Well done bullshitfactory

SenatorHume Bullshit

SenatorHume Oh, you are not aware that governments pass Acts of parliament.

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SenatorHume Who inacted the act? LNP

SenatorHume If Sky says so it must be true

SenatorHume Hume wouldn’t know what day it is, let alone what the Biosecurity Act is

SenatorHume So, Aspen is not part of the Biosecure part of the world? Or do the returning Australians have a sort of pale pink hue to their skin?

SenatorHume Are this terrible government actually responsible for anything?

SenatorHume BS. Every other country, including USA and UK, welcome their citizens home from India.

SenatorHume Bull

SenatorHume What about harsh penalties for governing bodies that have allowed this shit since the fucking beginning!

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SenatorHume Can the Morrison government stop lying to the public and take ownership!! auspol - worst government ever, it makes the Abbott government seem positively Rolls-Royce

SenatorHume It's rasist against brown people , something this government likes

SenatorHume Pent E Costal, Minister for Shady Lies, told you this?

SenatorHume Joke. SCMO is a clown

SenatorHume It didn't have to be activated ....

SenatorHume So who is running the country.

SenatorHume He locked up innocent refugees who traveled here legally Now he is going to lock up innocent Australians who travel here legally. Istoppedthese DictatorScott Corrupt International Criminal Auspol

SenatorHume Fair enough

SenatorHume cancelthebiosecurityactthenitsbullshit

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SenatorHume Sounds like this could finally be the last straw. It might be on? Is it on? auspol

SenatorHume Sounds like bullshit to me

SenatorHume 🤦‍♂️ FFS and who drafted the Biosecurity Act? Who got it thru Parl? Who manages the Act? Who is responsible for decisions under the Act? Your shallow hollow LNP mob that’s who. Take responsibility, just once! auspol

SenatorHume Minister Hunt's words in his media release 30 April 2021 regarding his decision 'Failure to comply with an emergency determination under the Biosecurity Act 2015 may incur a civil penalty of 300 penalty units, five years’ imprisonment, or both.'

SenatorHume Another Liberal hipster shot blowing their head off .

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SenatorHume Well your viewers who have been scrambling to justify Morrison's unconscionable conduct can now argue ' it wasn't the government, it was the government's legislation ' . I look forward to reading this excuse from the sheep.

SenatorHume Wankery of the highest order.

SenatorHume Is this government responsible for anything, always blaming someone or something. Is it a coincidence that the fine is $66,600 the 666 is the symbol for the DEVIL 👿

SenatorHume Not new.There are strict quarantine rules/bio securitylaws.Persons bringing banned items “may be prosecuted for a criminaloffence. If convicted, you could face a maximum penalty of A$420,000 and/or be imprisoned for up to 10years”. This was to protect crops. Now to protect humans

SenatorHume Excellent decision. Thank you to the Morrison Government for keeping Aussies safe and healthy.

SenatorHume Oh dear, there i was thinking it was god's will?

SenatorHume Oh shock horror-:there’s parts of the law that have already been passed that no one in their right mind would want activated, but now the government can and will do that, legally.

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SenatorHume Same as the state medical advise. We all know this so I can’t understand the complaining

SenatorHume Australia’s chief medical officer Paul Kelly says he did not provide specific advice to government around fines and jail time for people returning home from India, but provided health advice on “how to keep Australians safe”.

SenatorHume It is Inhumane, Amoral, UnAustralian & Unconstitutional! Strange how Aussies were allowed back at the height of the US & Italian Outbreaks! Remember the Aspen Skier Cluster? Color & Religion Will be read into this! Frydenberg mocking Hindi faith Feb 2020

SenatorHume Lawyers are Keen on the Racist India Ban! Not Guilty Verdict & Costs to Defendant Guaranteed! None will have to Pro Bono!

SenatorHume Where are the sovereign citizens, anti-maskers, anti-lockdown people marching against this government overreach against its citizens?

SenatorHume So who is the minister responsible? He or she needs to front up and explain why they signed off on the decision!

SenatorHume Hmmmm just more lies what a disgrace how stupid do this Govt think we are !!? Can they stop lying to the Australian people anyone with a brain can see that this mob are a bunch of pathological liers

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SenatorHume It must have been God who decided to use that act not Dutton

SenatorHume Jane Hume talks crap!

SenatorHume Put them in Quarantine not gaol .👍

SenatorHume Wow wow wow....Great Logical Answer a slap on the face of everyone printing finger at Morrison.

SenatorHume The pedestrians were not hit by me - they were hit by my car when I was driving Nothing to do with me, officer! 🙃

SenatorHume I just live this parody account Relentless sarcasm about the LNP government. Hilarious 😆😆

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SenatorHume Defence of the indefensible is getting embarrassing now.

SenatorHume Hume do you understand how legislation is enacted ? How it works ? Or are you just a victim of parliamentary circumstance?

SenatorHume That’s a laughable excuse. It’s ridiculous for the Morrison Liberal government to invoke a law then say it’s the laws fault that there’s a jail term attached. LNPfail

SenatorHume 'It's not our fault that the laws we enact have consequence when we have to start using them'.

SenatorHume Crap!

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