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I have been reading up on public liability and there may be a way of holding this type of event. I have to check with a legal eagle, but the way I read it is that if everyone is a volunteer they cannot claim public liability.http://www.treasury.qld.gov.au/subsi...ity_31_1.pdfQ: Are volunteers covered under publicliability insurance for any injurythey suffer?A: The policy will not pay claims forinjury to a volunteer working for theorganisation. Cover can be obtainedthrough a personal accident policy.Personal accident insurance providesa monetary benefit in the event ofaccidental injury, disability or deathwhich occurs whilst the volunteer isworking for the organisation.
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Peter,It"s a hard world when it comes to insurance these days. It started after 9/11 and has gone down hill since then. Simplistically speaking, insurance companies can only insure to the valus of funds that people have invested in them. People will only invest in them if they are giving a good return. I reckon disasters like 9/11 would have knocked the bum out of any returns that the worlds insurers were going to make for a year or so. Current economic situation also means less money to invest in insurance companies.As a consequence, insurers now pick and chose who they insure, and will gravitate towards those with the least risk. As an example of what you are up against, I am involved with the local boxing club. We can only get insurance (accident and public liability) for cover against things that don"t involve people actually involved in boxing. How useful do you reckon that is? If some-one is walking through the club house, and trips and whacks his head on the ring corner post, he"s covered. If some-one gives you a bit of a touch up, and you go down and whack your head on the corner post of the ring, you"re not covered. You"ll also find that the accident cover is likewise about as useful as the tits on a side of bacon (and in our instance, doesn"t cover anybody involved in the boxing). Perhaps a way around it might be to have nothing organised, and no land owner. i.e. If you let your mates know that you are going to practice a bit of barrel racing, and they happen to turn up uninvited, and it"s held on government land, and you didn"t tell them, and if other blokes were driving past and just happened to turn up? Might be a bit hard to determine who to sue. Then again, some smart aleck lawyer will probably sue everybody (just for the sheer enjoyment). The only sure fire way to not "lose the lot"
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Hello Fred,
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The ones that worry me most are the oil /mineral survey planes that despite phone calls to tell them mustering ops are happening in a certain area, just go ahead anyway. A twin FW at 200 ft and 150 plus knots is deadly. Bloodoth, they are the real "cowboys".
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Hello Fred,
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Thats starting to make it look hard Fred. I might have to settle for a weekend fishing.
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How I handle it,People either leave here healthy, or dead.
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How I handle it,People either leave here healthy, or dead.Didn"t want to mention that part.
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Interested in fishing Birdy?
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Thats starting to make it look hard Fred. I might have to settle for a weekend fishing.
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:P [Interested in fishing Birdy?] Peter,He does that occationally on the forums with his inacince now and again. Gets the big bites too.Cheers Des Garvin.
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I know of a couple of good fishing holes down along the Paroo that the public doesn’t get to because access is through private property and the cocky carries a trespassing deterrent. He’s a bit hard to contact but I’ll try and get hold of him and see if he will allow access for weekend fishing.
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Fishn??Bloodyell, my lifes boren enuff now without go"n fishn.
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Some of those survey planes also trail/dangle a 100 meter cable with a "torpedo" on the bottom while they criss-cross the area in a grid pattern. As Brian said, they often do not give notice of their operations. It is only a matter of time. I have seen an R44 dragging a torpedo looking thing but not a FW although I have seen the survey planes dragging a cable out the back. Might have lost the torpedo huh?
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The ones that worry me most are the oil /mineral survey planes that despite phone calls to tell them mustering ops are happening in a certain area, just go ahead anyway. A twin FW at 200 ft and 150 plus knots is deadly. Bloodoth, they are the real "cowboys".
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