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16 Oct 2024

Inquiry into the challenges and opportunities within the Australian live music industry Submission 65 Inquiry into the challenges and opportunities within the Australian live music industry Submission 65 1. [...] 2 Inquiry into the challenges and opportunities within the Australian live music industry Submission 65 ▪ Strip searches were used 277 times in the 12 months to 30 November 2006, compared to 5,483 in the 12 months to 30 June 2018, an almost 20-fold increase in less than 12 years; ▪ Three percent of strip searches during the 2017–2018 financial year were of children under 18, and 45 percent were of. [...] The Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 (NSW) establishes that a strip search should only be conducted in exceptional circumstances, where a police officer ‘suspects on reasonable grounds that a strip search is necessary for the purposes of the search’ and the ‘seriousness and urgency of the circumstances make the strip search necessary’. [...] The LECC investigations considered circumstances in which officers had failed to show that the seriousness and urgency of the circumstances made it necessary to conduct the relevant strip searches. [...] The cancellation of festivals like Splendour in the Grass impacts both the cultural landscape and the local economy.
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