Absolutely! And it was passed incredibly quickly without much public discussion.

He has one foot in the grave. I just wish he would end up there before he does much more damage.

There are documented cases of this happening where the person has been charged and jailed back in Australia, so yes it has happened. But out of a population of 23 million, there would be about 5-10 cases where it has actually happened. Not enough to warrant a complete ban on travel for all registrants in my opinion as there is so much grey area in terms of offences that put you on the registry!

Also, we don’t have a massive civil rights movement like you do in the States. So this won’t be challenged unfortunately.

So they based this archaic law on what some outrageous disc jockey said? That is insane!

Ask Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert, Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer.
There’s a wikipedia page just for the federal politicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_scandals_in_the_United_States

The politician in question who is bringing in all of these “reforms” is a former shock jock radio presenter that has been constantly sacked from jobs due to being so outrageous. He needed a new angle so joined politics and is now causing damage there. He is trying hard to have a public registry here whilst preaching that there is no vigilantism in the States and they have an open registry. The same man supports a bikie gang that openly has a FB page that tracks down the private addresses of registrants and torments them both in person and online. It’s crazy but it’s emotive and wins votes yet offers no real “solutions”. Simply because you can’t legislate yourself into safety.

I wonder how many of those legislators travel to those locations as sex tourists.

Seems to me that if you want to know what a politician does in their “off time” just look at what they claim to be against when “working”.

So many times it proves the quite the opposite! I laugh everything I hear about a politician who runs a campaign on “family values” getting busted with a male escort or hooker, smoking crack, or seeking sex in an airport men’s room!

Countries come and go (most should go) yet humans have been around and moving around long before most countries existed.

Australians need to read up on their history. They were a nation created by the “outcasts” of other countries and now they have created a virtual prison with a life sentence.

Who are the real criminals?

Those who have paid their debt to society and yet are punished until the day they die OR those who make up the rules and play God with other’s lives?

SexOffenderTruth.com

“I don’t think it’s fair to say that every single one of them is going there to commit crimes, but on the whole they are not going for the beaches,” says Glen Hulley, the founder of Project Karma, a group combating child sex exploitation in Indonesia and the Philippines. He says his organisation has seen information being shared online detailing what villages in remote areas of Bali should be targeted, how much money should be paid to families and how to bribe police if caught.

My thoughts: It sounds like even bigger problems re: potential sex tourism in Bali are 1) families ready to sell their children for sex abuse, and 2) cops who completely ignore it all for a price.