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Old 04-04-2011, 04:24 PM
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bkm2304 (Richard Brown)
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Originally Posted by firstlight View Post
Another aside to this was that events as the SPSP and the Queensland Astrofest were specifically excluded from insurance, something that was a shock to us on the committee as we thought thast as a club event (multiple clubs at that), we would have been covered...
Ah yes, the exclusions and the terminology. Quite a few thousand Australian families have found out all about policy exclusions recently.

When liability fever swept through the local councils in the late 90's in NSW, clubs and small interest groups were faced with utter absurdities such as ladies' crochet circles and the like needing $10 mill liability when using council community halls (I'm not sure either, but I suppose a person wandering by the ladies in the hall might trip over on a ball of wool or gouge themselves with a number 3 hook). The upshot was that many community groups simply folded or started meeting at homes.

Change the law on this sillines and allow people actually to take some responsibility for their actions and not as a reflex blame someone else if at all possible.

Richard
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