Are you legally obligated to leave the building when fire alarm is on?
Legally? No. Morally? Yes. Are you stupid if you don't? Absolutely.Let's say you are in an office building on the 20th floor and there's a fire on the 19th floor. When the alarm sounds, your coworkers all leave, but you stay because "it's probably another false alarm " and you're on an important phone call. Besides, you think, there's no smoke.Your co-workers get to the ground floor and see flames shooting out of the other side of the building from your office and realize it's a lot worse than you thought., so they tell the incident commander you're still up there.That just changed the focus of the whole incident from putting the fire out to rescuing you from a very tenuous position. Instead of helping to put the fire out, several companies of 3 to 5 firefighters each are going to be assigned to go get you. Why so many people? Because in a high rise there's two places that are just as dangerous as the fire floor and those are the floor below the fire and the floor above it.So you've now put 15 people at risk, and slowed firefighting operations just because you didn't want to walk down the stairs.When the fire alarm sounds , please, leave the building.
What happens if you leave Australia with a debt?
As mentioned previously it depends on the size of the debt and who it is that is seeking payment.It also depends on the cost of pursuing the debt. A civil debt may not be pursued due to the costs involved and there may be legal obstacles.In some cases civil debt will be sold to a debt collection agency. I have even seen them for auction on eBay!A civil debt expires in 12 years and cannot be pursued after the time expires.A Government debt will usually await your return to the country unless it is a very substantial amount.Bank debts as far as I am aware are not chased unless they are substantial, say 10s of thousands or more. Your credit rating will be reduced and the debt will usually be written off after a period. Banks insure themselves against debt by increasing costs to consumers and through investment of customer funds.