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drones

To: sandra henderson <>
Subject: drones
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:34:17 +0000
There are rules about how close they are allowed to be to people.  I shall try to find them.


On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 05:31, sandra henderson <> wrote:
is anyone else encountering these annoying machines? Both yesterday and today I've been birdwatching in public parks when someone has come along with a small drone. Yesterday it was a young person - maybe young teenager - using a drone at Point Hut Pond Park - and actually chasing a swamphen with it! The adult with this young person was on his phone the whole time, not watching what was going on.  Today it was a park in Macarthur, and almost as soon as I arrived there was a VERY noisy small drone being operated by a young man. The birds all took off in alarm - rosellas, cockatoos, noisy miners etc. I gave up and left. 

The ACT government apparently isn't responsible for drones in the ACT - CASA is, and there don't seem to be any rules about their use in places like suburban parks..

sandra h


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