UOW student speaks after failed fight against parking fine

Oliver Griffiths speaks after he was found guilty of violating parking rules at the University of Wollongong.

Transcript

00:00I've tried to do the right things but apparently writing a note is not

00:04reasonable enough. Trying an offering to pay in cash is not reasonable enough. If

00:08you have to pay in cash you have other options which is to use your phone but

00:12if you don't have a phone and you can't use your phone then what do you do? If

00:17you can't use an app which you've been booted off you only have cash especially

00:22when you don't have money in your bank account. So what is one supposed to do?

00:25Well I thought what I did was reasonable. Apparently it's not. I've served

00:30documents five minutes before the proceedings which indicate oh surprise

00:35there's a parking meter 60 metres away behind a deep dark bush. It's shameful

00:41that we are using taxpayer funded resources for police prosecutions on

00:46behalf of academic institutions to prosecute young university students who

00:51don't have any money who are trying to explain themselves that they are

00:55trying to do the right thing by the university.