The South Australian Labor Party has pledged to overhaul current child sex offence laws to further protect children from predators if elected later this month. These would be the toughest set of laws and penalties to combat paedophilia in Australia if implemented. A media release on Monday stated that “A Malinauskas Labor Government will lock up serious child sex offenders and throw away the key until they can prove that they are no longer a threat to the community.” This refers to one law in the Labor package, which would see indefinite detention for serious child sex offenders, meaning they would need to stay in prison until they can prove they can control their paedophilia. Other inclusions in the package would be increased penalties across a range of child sex offences, lifetime electronic monitoring of serious child sex offenders who re-enter the community, the creation of South Australia’s first public child …