Excellent reading
thanks rob.

thanks for the heads-up.

very interesting read indeed.

If it does not sound bad enough, I have an accent..... from a country
often associated with legal threats.... suing etc. Getting all
legalistic is much tougher for me..... especially in an already
potentially explosive situation.......... or am I just paranoid because
Bush is a knob and has alienated most of the worlds population?

I like the idea of have a laminated copy in your bag... but let's face
it, for someone to approach and start harassing they are already
boiling.... I don't think quoting laws is going to help.... especially
when people are so emotive about their kids.

this is however a symptom of the police/laws simply trying to keep the
peace rather than LAY DOWN THE LAW. If offenders were dealt with harshly
when caught, people would not feel the need to protect their kids from
everything that goes bump since the law is actually protecting us from
the minority of scum. If the price is too high to get caught then less
would even TRY to get away with it.

Just look at recent articles in the Herald Sun (Melb) about the number
of serious multiple offenders who have seen little or no jail-time.....
these are hardcore offenders, not just casual photographers....... no
wonder parents feel the need to take the law into their own hands to
protect themselves and their children.

kosh

It's all part of the worldwide criminalization of photography.
Anyone out on the street taking photos is now considered either a
terrorist or a pedophile.  If I went down to the park and starting
taking pics of children playing in the fountain, it wouldn't be 5
minutes before some fatass cop is hauling me away.  I've even been
approached by the cops when photographing a bridge.  Good thing I
didn't have a turban on my head.

There was a story on the local news here last year about an all-out
police search for some man who was driving around photographing
children playig in their neighborhood. Front page on all the papers.

When they finally caugt up with him it turned out that he was shooting
photos of houses from his car for a real estate company.
Small paragraph on P.32.