{"id":19284,"date":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/nsw-legalises-controversial-eyeball-tattoos\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","slug":"nsw-legalises-controversial-eyeball-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/nsw-legalises-controversial-eyeball-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW legalises controversial eyeball tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The NSW Government has moved to legalise a dangerous procedure that involves the injection of ink into eyeballs to permanently colour them.<\/h3>\n<p>The procedure will now be covered by laws that also apply to tongue tattooing, tongue piercing and colonic irrigation, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/irreversible-and-dangerous-eye-tattoos-now-legal-in-nsw\/news-story\/c169a067a68585f82dd6fb601146acc9\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to ensure that premises that carry out eyeball tattooing comply with the infection control provisions of the Public Health Act and Regulation, the Public Health Regulation was amended to include eyeball tattooing within the meaning of skin penetration procedures,\u201d said a NSW Health spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The move has been attacked by the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is absolutely ridiculous,\u201d opposition health spokesman Walt Secord said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NSW legalises controversial eyeball tattoos | FIVEAA\" title=\"NSW legalises controversial eyeball tattoos | FIVEAA\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/barnum.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Jason Barnum&nbsp;appears in a US court with his right eye tattooed | Image |&nbsp;AP Photo\/Dan Joling<\/h6>\n<h3>\u201cInjecting ink into your eye is a recipe for disaster. Doctors have advised that they are very reluctant to undertake any procedure involving eyes and the Baird government should not be regulating this area.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cEyeball tattooing should be banned outright in NSW,\u201d said Mr Secord.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure came to prominence in 2012 when convicted criminal Jason Barnum appeared in an Alaskan court with his right eye tattooed, according to the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>The move to permit eyeball tattooing in NSW has perplexed many, especially in light of the state government\u2019s public defence of its strict late night drinking laws.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/financial-guru-predicts-massive-australian-property-crash-next-year\">FINANCIAL GURU PREDICTS MASSIVE CRASH IN AUSTRALIA NEXT YEAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/mark-robinson-defends-attack-on-media-rivals-after-garry-lyon-drama\">ROBBO ATTACKS RIVALS IN WAKE OF GARRY LYON DRAMA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government has moved to legalise a dangerous procedure that involves the injection of ink into eyeballs to permanently colour them. The procedure will now be covered by laws that also apply to tongue tattooing, tongue piercing and colonic irrigation, reports the Daily Telegraph. \u201cIn order to ensure that premises that carry out eyeball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NSW legalises controversial eyeball tattoos - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/nsw-legalises-controversial-eyeball-tattoos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NSW legalises controversial eyeball tattoos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The NSW Government has moved to legalise a dangerous procedure that involves the injection of ink into eyeballs to permanently colour them. 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