In 2003, complaints were received of children being photographed in change rooms, by underwater cameras while in the main pool, and while participating in squad training.

The General Manager serving under the last ALP Mayor issued instructions to pool staff to ban unauthorised photography at the pool.

Council has an obligation to put these instructions up for public comment by exhibiting them as a draft policy.

Council has a duty to reconcile pool-users genuine concerns that their children's privacy maybe violated against protecting the civil liberties of other parents to photograph their children.

By exhibiting the policy Councillors are seeking guidance from the community on how this reconciliation can be achieved.

The Greens wish to make the existing 2003 ALP instructions less stringent by permitting schools to assign their own designated photographers to cover swimming carnivals.

Next Tuesday night, ALP Councillors will stop the consultation process by voting to kill off the draft policy and to remove the instructions that they condoned being implemented.

This irresponsible action will leave pool staff with no authority to instruct inappropriate photographers to leave.