NSW: Powers to round up SARS suspects goes too far: Murphy
A civil rights campaigner says allowing police to force suspected SARS victims intotreatment in New South Wales is a heavy-handed over-reaction.
Premier BOB CARR has told The Daily Telegraph that Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromewill be listed under the Public Health Act, which allows special emergency powers to forcetreatment to stop such a virus spreading.
But NSW Council for Civil Liberties president CAMERON MURPHY says the government isgoing too far, too fast, when Australia has even got a SARS probelm.
He says people copuld be arrested and locked up just because they have the common cold.
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KEYWORD: SARS AUST LIBERTIES (SYDNEY)
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