The government is planning to increase the penalty for food contamination to 15 years in prison.
Here are some crimes that have lower penalties than that.
1. Administering poison
2. Bigamy
3. Indecent assault
Anyone in NSW who assaults someone while also committing "an act of indecency" risks five years in prison. For aggravated indecent assault, the maximum penalty is seven years.
4. Organ trafficking
Organising a person's entry into Australia where you are reckless as to whether it will result in the removal of one of their organs without their consent, is against the Commonwealth Criminal Code. The maximum penalty is 12 years if the person trafficked is an adult, which can be increased if the person is a child.
5. Abduction or detention with a sexual purpose
Section 47 of the Victorian Crimes Act prohibits abducting or detaining another person for the purpose of sex or marriage. If you do this, you could go to jail for 10 years.
6. Torture
7. Drink spiking
8. Sex with a 15-year-old
Sexual intercourse with a child aged 14 to 16 is a crime in NSW that can get you 10 years in prison, or up to 12 if there are "circumstances of aggravation" – such as when the victim has a serious physical disability.
9. Breaking, entering and stealing
10. Bomb hoax
11. Grooming children
If a person does something in relation to a child under 16, intending to make it easier to procure the child to engage in sexual activity outside Australia, they could be charged under the Commonwealth Criminal Code and sent to prison for 12 years.
12. Human trafficking
The Commonwealth forbids you from organising the entry or exit of a person from Australia if there's an arrangement for that person to provide sexual services outside Australia, and you deceive that person about the nature of the sexual services, or how free they'll be to leave. That can lead to 12 years in prison.
13. Insider trading
14. Choking, suffocation or strangulation in a domestic setting
If you do this to your partner without their consent in Queensland, you might go to prison for seven years.