When Peter Maatouk first called out for everyone’s participation in a Class Action for NSW, he had no idea the huge snowball effect that this was going to take across Australia. We had originally focused on the misapplication of the public health and emergency laws in each State and Territory, as contrasted to the application of the Biosecurity Act 2015, at the Federal level, which we argue is stricter in application and sets up various human rights considerations and medical standards, before making decisions to detain, isolate, mask, test, contact trace, restrict behaviour and vaccinate individuals that are identified as risks. We did not agree that you can bypass these individual considerations and order groups of people without an individualised risk assessment. Under both Federal and States and Territories’ legislation, consideration must be given to whether a public health risk is serious and significant enough to necessitate emergency declarations. In doing so, Governments must balance the competing need to protect the public interest, with the need to protect human rights