The South Australian Supreme Court will hear a challenge in March by police officers, firefighters, a teacher and nurse & Adelaide Crows player Deni Varnhagen to the state's vaccine mandates.
On Thursday the case was set down for trial in an action featuring another nurse, a child care worker, a teacher and two police officers.
Teacher Craig Bowyer spoke to Flow on Thursday afternoon about his reasons for being involved in the action:
"Last year we were allowed to teach until a man made date, the 10th of December. We were told that children were safe, teachers were safe unless they had predisposed conditions. Teachers and students were okay with covid, only the old people with a heart condition. As soon as the vaccines were rolled out, we were no longer safe to teach.
"We believe that we have been unfairly targeted, the nurses they were on the front line doing all the hard work before the vaccine was rolled out, as soon as it came out, they were all sacked.
"Every nurse I know, the reason they were prepared to lose their jobs, was because they'd seen so many people affected by the vaccine they weren't prepared to take it themselves.
Hear Flow's exclusive interview with Craig Bowyer on the FlowNews24 podcast:
Mr Bowyer indicated there could be serious financial ramifications for the SA government and taxpayers if their case succeeds:
"It's not a class action but if this gets up, I think there will be some serious financial recompense because that's when the class actions can kick in."
Varnhagen was moved to the Crows' inactive list because of her decision not to be vaccinated.
Under AFL rules, all players and football staff also had to be fully vaccinated by December 17 last year.
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