A coroner has called for a public awareness campaign about the requirement for portable pools to be fenced following the drowning of an 18-month-old boy in Hobart. Kobie Ryder Blackaby died in ...

A child dies in a portable pool every five days during warm-weather months, according to the first U.S. study on child drownings in such pools, a statistic that the study’s senior author says ...

With the hot summer months arriving, a new study warns that caregivers need to be thinking about the drowning hazards posed by portable pools, including inflatable and wading pools. "Parents need to ...

While it is understandable that fences need to meet strict Australian standards, renters like Steve Bickerson are having difficulty understanding why the associated council fees are out of proportion ...

DISGRUNTLED neighbours are tipped to dob on each other over unfenced wading pools when tough new laws come into effect later this year. So stringent are the new rules that portable pools and fish ...

Lismore City Council has urged residents seeking relief from the heat by using portable pools to be aware of the NSW pool fencing laws. Little-known or ignored regulations require that even a small ...