Israel’s President Herzog has departed leaving less “social cohesion”, while politicians, justices and NSW Police have many questions to answer, writes Wendy Bacon.

Judith Treanor writes that had authorities facilitated a peaceful march, the huge protest against Isaac Herzog on Gadigal Country/Sydney would have concluded without incident, as it did in more than 30 other places across the country that night.

Pip Hinman argues that Premier Chris Minns’ dishonest and cruel justifications for police violence against people protesting the visit of Zionist Isaac Herzog show he is not fit to lead the state.  

Friends of Callan Park organised a rally at the Callan Park gates to protest the installation of plastic grass fields on two existing sporting grounds. Arlo Valmai reports.

Legal experts addressed a well-attended discussion on the new state and federal anti-free speech laws and how to push back. Richard Boult reports.

Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that no dictatorship forms overnight. It happens through laws that restrict public assembly, criminalise dissent, expand police powers and reframe political opposition as a threat to public order.

To mark 10 years since his uncle, Dunghutti man David Dungay jnr, was murdered at Long Bay jail, Paul Silva organised a protest at Hyde Park, which also challenged the NSW’s new draconian anti-protest laws. Rachel Evans reports.

An arson attack on a private home flying the Palestinian flag took place in inner-city Chippendale during the first two weeks of January. Jim McIlroy reports.