GREAT NEWS! Court DISMISSES $10k in Covid fines against Port of Bourke pub!
It’s been a harrowing couple of years for Luke Moon.
Luke is the owner of The Port of Bourke Hotel, a local pub and restaurant in the small outback town of Bourke.
In 2019, the town was brought to its knees when a devasting drought swept through the region. Then the state-wide coronavirus lockdown began, forcing Luke to close down his business.
When he reopened in full compliance with the new public health mandates, one patron took exception to the rules and assaulted Luke with a glass bottle.
If that wasn’t enough, a few weeks later, undercover police travelled 374km to issue Luke TWO $5,000 coronavirus fines for allegedly failing to comply with the new health measures.
It was an outrageous sum, especially given that at the time, the closest recorded coronavirus case was over 500km away!
But thanks to the generous donations from our viewers to FightTheFines.com.au, we hired Luke an exceptional lawyer, to get those ridiculous fines dropped.
WATCH and SHARE Luke’s reaction to the news and hear how his lawyer, Mani Shishineh, got him off the hook.
Luke Moon was over the moon when he found out that a $10,000 burden was lifted off his shoulders.
Significantly, Magistrate Hamilton conceded that publicans are not authorized officers, so Luke didn’t have the legal power or authority to enforce covid rules in the first place.
It’s hard to believe that the police would be petty enough to drive nearly 400km to fine an outback pub. Are there no other crimes to investigate?
It cost us nearly as much to fight Luke’s tickets as it would have just to pay the fines ourselves — but that’s not the point.
Earning a legal victory against these authoritarian measures is much more important if we have any hope of pushing back against the government’s weaponization of public health measures against the Australian people.
This isn’t our first Fight the Fines win, and with your help, we’ll make sure it won’t be the last.
To support our ongoing campaign to help people fight their pandemic fines, please visit FightTheFines.com.au and donate today.
P.S. We’re so happy that we were able to help Luke beat his fines, and we couldn’t be more grateful for the support from our viewers who helped make this possible. To help more people like Luke fight their lockdown tickets, please click here to donate or go to FightTheFines.com.au.
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