Pressure is building on the NSW government to axe a law driving up the cost of festival tickets.
Measures demanded under a law for festivals deemed “risky” are adding $30 to the ticket prices of a popular Cockatoo Island event, its organisers claim.
Mode has been designated a so-called risky event for three years running under the contentious law, which was introduced five years ago in a bid to minimise social harm. By contrast, Victorian police have not levied any user-pays charge for Mode’s sibling event at the Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts.
Greens MP Cate Faehrmann said it was particularly concerning that police did not allow Mode festival goers to use public transport to get to the festival. Attendees were forced through one private dock to get to Cockatoo Island, with drug check officers and sniffer dogs at the entrance.“NSW is the only jurisdiction in the country that has these ridiculous laws, which deem certain music festivals ‘high risk’,” she said.
“This essentially puts us under the microscope and means we have to prepare a Safety Management Plan – a document that is currently over 500 pages long,” Mode’s Joe Ireland said.
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