Arjay Martin has planned coronavirus protests knocked back by courts for a second time

A Gold Coast election candidate will not be able to hold four protests he planned in October because he did not fill out a form correctly, a court has ruled.

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A GOLD Coast election candidate will not be able to hold four protests he planned in October because he did not fill out a form correctly, a court has ruled.

Arjay Martin has said he will run for the Surfers Paradise electorate in the upcoming election.

He told the Southport Magistrates Court on Friday that part of his election campaign was to hold a protest in Kurrawa or Pratten Park in Broadbeach every Sunday.

Mr Martin claimed he would get between 500 and 5000 people at the protest.

On the form submitted to police Mr Martin claimed the protest would be against “the lockdown, COVID and social distancing”.

“No sick people welcome,” he noted on the form.

The court was told police offered to allow Mr Martin to protest with a limit of 30 people but he refused.

The Oxenford man has been protesting about the coronavirus pandemic restrictions since March and has repeatedly made claims that COVID-19 is not as fatal as health experts have warned.

Arjay Martin. Picture: Glenn Hampson.

In May, at the height of the lockdown in Queensland, Mr Martin’s attempts to have a protest against the lockdown in Surfers Paradise were knocked back by the court because the application he made was not valid.

On Friday Magistrate Cameron McKenzie said the details Mr Martin provided in the form for the October protests did not contain the right information.

He said under legislation the application could not be made for more than one date unless the protest ran continuously.

Mr McKenzie said the expected numbers of between 500 and 5000 people did not allow police or local authorities to accurately prepare.

And he said Mr Martin giving the location of Pratten and Kurrawa parks did not narrow the location down enough for authorities.

“I refuse to authorise the holding of a public assembly,” Mr McKenzie said.

Outside of court Mr Martin said he would not be holding the protest this weekend but would lodge individual applications to hold protests on October 11, 18 and 25.

Mr Martin operates Reset Parliament Australia which he claims is a political party.

The party has not been registered with the Electoral Commission of Queensland.

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