Council demands $20m insurance for a park rally

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn regional New South Wales, a council told a protest organiser they would need a twenty million dollar public liability insurance policy to hold a rally in a park.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat detail appears in a report released on Wednesday by the Australian Democracy Network and Deakin University researchers, as reported by The Guardian, which found that council red tape is stymieing the right to protest.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwenty million dollars. I have seen people try to check out with less in their cart and still get declined.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have stood in front of ministries in many countries, Kenji, and I was usually asked for a passport, not a policy.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the right to protest now has a deductible.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe report says the paperwork is hindering public gatherings, and that is the finding. It does not say every council asks for this much.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFair. But if you need coverage to gather in a park, my group chat is a liability event waiting to happen.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHow many people are in it?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEleven, and ten of them never reply, so technically it's a very quiet rally with a very big policy.