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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.