The rules state that the drone must be operated 30m or more from people that are not associated with the operation of the device.
Surely being higher than 30m meets this requirement?
The requirements also say that you need to be more than 5km from an aerodrome and not operate above 400ft in controlled airspace.
I could easily foresee a situation where someone meets all those requirements and someone gets bent out of shape and tries to prosecute.
The rules are not particularly easy to interpret, so someone with no aviation experience would have no hope in my opinion.
For example - not above 400 ft in controlled airspace. What does this mean? If the lowest level of CTA is 12000ft are you ok to go above 400ft?
The guy who flew his drone up to the top of Q1 on the Gold Coast should have guessed that it would be a problem, being in a populated area and close to the cooly airport, but the state mine out near lithgow isn't as cut and dried in my opinion.