The membership of the NT runs into millions so even a fraction of one percent would make a significant difference to their coffers.
A potential problem lies with the over-zealous member of staff or volunteers being vaguely aware of the situation with regard to taking photos for profit and assuming they have the right to challenge anyone who just owns a camera even before they lift it to their eye or who just takes family snapshots - we've all heard of the cases where police or community support officers (or whatever they're called) have gone beyond their authority and demanded people stop taking photos or delete images when they've done absolutely nothing wrong.
It could all lead to members resigning or potential new members just not bothering to join or people being turned away from ever having any interest in anything that they think they're not allowed to even photograph for the record of the day out.
On a wider level, it's just one more of our rights and freedoms being slowly chipped away. Nothing to do with the NT, but every time we take a photo of, say, a local 'event' we're recording a moment in history for future generations to look at - not just the event itself but all the fashions that the public are wearing, the cars in the street, etc., but if you daren't lift your camera even, because you might point it in the direction of a policeman or children or someone's shop window or something, then the moment is lost to future generations for ever.
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