The government are forcing festival promoters to pay for the police and ambulance to be present, a festival had to be cancelled because they couldn't afford the $200k+ for extra police. If Defqon 1 is on it will be like $500 tickets.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/m ... ae40832e9eThere will be a “user-pays” system where the festival will be charged for police, ambulance and other services on site, including “chill-out spaces”.
These charges will be individually determined, festival by festival.
“Unless the festival agrees to the police bill, they will be denied their festival licence,” a slide read. “There is currently no method available to festival organisers to query these fees or be provided any transparency or justification for these fees,” one of the slides read.
On top of this, an additional fee was proposed to cover the cost of “administration fees” incurred by Liquor and Gaming NSW of somewhere between 60 cents and 2 dollars per ticket sold. The cost will be “scaled according to risk”.
Any event with a capacity over 2000 people with multiple music acts, occurring over a five-hour period, where music is the primary focus, will be classified as a festival and will be subject to the new laws.
A concert will remain defined as such if it only has two headliners, two support acts has a duration of less than five hours.