Commentary The Western Australian (WA) government under Premier Mark McGowan is imposing mandatory vaccinations on about 75 percent of the state’s workforce, enforceable with massive fines of up to $100,000 for employers and $20,000 for workers. This, in a democracy, is to be affected by mere directions under the Public Health Act, most of which are yet to be made. They will not be submitted to the executive council where the governor would normally need to be assured that he has the legal power to make them. Nor will there be any need for the orders to be tabled in Parliament, with either house being able to disallow them. Yet such safeguards were once required across Australia, even in colonial times. Instead, practices typical of a dictatorship have become normal. At least the supporting advice from the WA’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Andrew Robertson has been published. This has been …