The Daily Examiner 16 January 2015:
Organisers of the Rabbits Eat Lettuce rave have accused Coffs Harbour City Council of wasting ratepayers' money to stop a pre-festival launch party that was never going to happen.
The council went to the NSW Land and Environment Court for an injunction to stop this weekend's 24-hour electronic dance music event going ahead at 500 Fridays Creek Rd in Upper Orara.
However, the festival's organisers issued a statement saying that location was never on the cards.
"The event on the weekend has never been advertised as being in Coffs Harbour Shire," it stated.
"The event on the weekend is our launch party for our festival (on the Easter long weekend).
"We notified the lawyers representing Coffs Harbour Shire that the event is not taking place at the Friday Creek venue in Coffs Harbour Shire, however they did not listen and wasted ratepayer money to file an injunction at the Land and Environment Court."
Background
Rabbits Eat Lettuce won’t be dancing at Upper Orara this weekend
UPDATES
2:11pm 17 January
It would appear that the situation is hotting up Ebor way:
5.30 pm
Everyone trekking back home after NSW Police close the rave.
UPDATE
UPDATES
2:11pm 17 January
It would appear that the situation is hotting up Ebor way:
5.30 pm
Everyone trekking back home after NSW Police close the rave.
UPDATE
Echo
Netdaily 21 January 2015:
A police raid
that closed down a weekend dance party on private land near Coffs Harbour was
an over-reaction according to organisers.
The event, at
Ebor, was closed down in its early stages on Saturday afternoon when just over
150 people had arrived and were in the process of setting up camp.
It was
organised by Rabbits Eat Lettuce and was intended as a launch event for a much
larger Easter party in the Richmond Valley.
The Rabbits
Eat Lettuce (REL) electronic dance music parties have been running for around
six years and are attended by up to 1500 people. Last year’s event ran without
incident near Casino.
Police said
they were called to the party because, NSW Forestry, which owns land on the
Styx River adjoining the event site, expressed concerns there were illegal
campsites, cars and portaloos in the forest.
Coffs Harbour
Shire Council had attempted to have the party stopped by the Land and
Environment Court on Friday afternoon but organisers told them they had the
wrong site.
Police said
they attempted to speak with the event organisers at the site but were ‘denied
entry and shown a handwritten note allegedly granting permission to hold the
event from the land owner’.
‘As police
and forestry rangers began to clear the forestry land, organisers of the party
moved all persons there onto the adjacent private property, telling partygoers
that police could not stop them from holding the event,’ a police media
spokesperson said.
But police
say they managed to persuade the landowner to revoke permission for the event
and then went about disbanding it.
‘About
5.30pm, police issued demands to the organisers and patrons to shut down the
party. When this did not occur, police cut open locked gates to gain entry and
shut down the event without further incident,’ the spokesperson added.
‘Senior
police also authorised the use of a roadblock to turn around a large number of
people attempting to attend the event.’
Just one
person was charged over the raid, for trespass. There were no drug arrests....
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