A move to ban noisy children from an Australian shopping centre has been met with shock by centres here who say it goes against the family focus of malls.
Sydney's Dee Why Grand introduced the policy following complaints about out-of-control children.
A notice from centre management put up in the mall last week reads 'Stop. Parents please be considerate of other customers using the food court. Screaming children will not be tolerated in the centre', News.com.au reported.
Staff and customers had complained about children "running amok" and screaming in the food court, near the centre's playground for under fives, centre manager Brenda Mulcahy told the website.
However, New Zealand shopping centre managers have rejected the idea, saying they won't be doing the same here.