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Originally Posted by Astro_Bot
There's no limitation on private photography in a public place,
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Hi,
It depends nowadays, or so I was told by an enormous police sergeant (he was quite polite). My niece (age 15yrs) was doing photography at a Canberra high school, and her assignment was to do a seascape, and an industrial landscape. Not many of them in Canberra, so they drove to Sydney for a visit, and I took her to the older rusty side of the Kurnell oil refinery in Sir Joseph Banks Drive, then on to the coast near Boat Harbour. Perfect.
That night the doorbell rang, and two police demanded to know what I had been doing there etc etc. I got upset, and gave them the old "democratic rights public road this isn't a dictatorship" line, but they were unimpressed.
No, no, all nonsense, sorry, said the sergeant, you can't take photos of certain sensitive installations even from a public place.
"How would we know?" I asked "there were no signs about it there"
Not relevant, said the walloper, you can't photograph installations at the airport or at railway stations either . True. There are no signs, but you can't snap away on a Sydney railway station. It's uber verboten.
I don't know who to be most upset at. A pox on all of them.
No cheers