As a result of the massive nation-wide attention brought on the Adelaide City Council by the Hare Krishna Traveling Temple the ban on chanting Hare Krishna in Adelaide that had been in place for many years was lifted.
After the Traveling Temple Program to collect signatures to free the Russian Hare Krishna devotees generated a huge amount of national television coverage on Adelaide City Councils ban on chanting Hare Krishna in the city they were force to
For many years Mike Willesee, the host of a national nightly Australian news show, was waging a war against the Hare Krishna's who were collecting for Food For Life in Sydney. On this show he interviews the Temple President, Chita Hari.
Traveling Temple Visits Woolongong and gets banned from using the RSL hall because they are wearing dhotis.