Sections 28 and 29 require workers to take reasonable care their own health and safety and that of other persons in a workplace. The effect of Hurley’s direction was to ensure Operation Sovereign Borders personnel did not face the risk of criminal prosecution under the act if they failed to do so. Section 39 relates to preserving sites (i.e. evidence) where a workplace injury has occurred. That, too, has been voided in Operation Sovereign Borders. Hurley was up front about the reason for the direction: “Commonwealth officials and agents of the Commonwealth will be required to operate in a hazardous, uncertain and high-tempo operational environment, having to board vessels, and control and potentially transfer unco-operative persons. In such circumstances, despite best efforts, it may not always be possible to comply with the requirements of the act, Hurley said. A license to be violent and aggressive. So tell me again why I shouldnt dump on our armed forces. crikey.au/2014/03/06/training-lifeboats-and-asylum-seekers-in-the-battle-space/
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