Director of "Human Biosecurity" can enact "Human Control Orders"

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Australia - The legislation allows biosecurity officers to conduct searches without warrants in emergencies related to pests or disease.

Government legislation setting up the orders, which can be in place for three months, cleared parliament on Wednesday, creating new rules aimed at preventing the spread of disease in both human populations and agriculture.

The Director of human biosecurity can also order someone to be vaccinated or treated.

The human biosecurity control orders enable a health department official to force anyone with signs or symptoms of a listed disease to isolate themselves or face arrest.

One with a disease listed could face five years in prison if they defy orders to stay at home.

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This program of mandatory medical control over the population comes in the wake of the "Vaccination Mandate" earlier in April.

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To 'force' compliance Tony Abbott's government withdrew childcare payments for anti-vaccination parents.

Parents who are "conscientious objectors" to childhood vaccination will have their childcare and family tax payments stopped from 1 January next year as the federal government attempts to crack down on the anti-vaccination movement.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced on Sunday a loophole would be closed to stop payments to parents worth up to $15,000 per child.

"Parents who vaccinate their children should have confidence that they can take their children to childcare without the fear that their children will be at risk of contracting a serious or potentially life-threatening illness because of the conscientious objections of others," Mr Abbott said.

Although Australia's overall childhood vaccination rates remain high - about 97 per cent - the numbers of people who are registered conscientious objectors has risen in the past 10 years.

"The Government is extremely concerned at the risk this poses to other young children and the broader community," Mr Abbott said.

"The choice made by families not to immunise their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments."

From 1 January 2016 people who are registered conscientious objectors will no longer receive either of the two childcare payments - the childcare benefit and the childcare rebate - or the end of year supplement to Family Tax Benefit Part A.

Families claiming the end of year supplement for family tax benefits will also have to have their children vaccinated at all ages from the start of next year before receiving the payment.

At the moment, children's vaccination status is only checked at the ages of 1, 2 and 5 years.

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Opposition leader Bill Shorten backed the change.

"Labor supports promoting the safety of our children," Mr Shorten said on Sunday.

"We believe fundamentally in the science of vaccination."

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Meanwhile, Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy said Tuesday's federal budget revealed the Commonwealth was winding back its funding of the state's hospitals by $17.7 billion over the decade following 2015-16 – more than the state government had previously expected.

With all the new mandatory rules being put in-place, and hospital funding cut, what is happening? A boondoggle, a bottleneck?

The Commonwealth had also slashed $181 million over three years from Victoria's publicly funded dental services for the poorest people in the state.

The state government was expecting $221 million over three years from July under a national dental partnership, but has only been given $38.5 million for one year.

hmm..