Suzette Meade writes that NSW Premier Chris Minns is copying former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen's authoritarian tactics, claiming that “order” requires the silencing of public voices.
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Dal Ouba argues that the new hate speech laws have created different classes of citizenship — which is not in anyone’s best interests.
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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.
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The Invasion Day rally will march from Hyde Park to the Yabun Festival and Blak Caucus is calling for a big show of support. Rachel Evans reports.
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Chris Minns’ hastily drawn-up “inquiry” into hate speech in NSW, following the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, is set to lead to new laws criminalising certain words in addition to preventing protests. Pip Hinman argues this overreach and communities will not be made safer.
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Palestine solidarity and civil rights campaigners rallied outside the NSW Supreme Court to support the Palestine Action Group’s Supreme Court challenge to NSW Labor’s anti-protest laws. Isaac Nellist reports.
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The NSW government has made a last-ditch attempt to stop the People’s Blockade of the world’s largest coal port by designating Muloobinba/Newcastle Harbour an ‘exclusion zone’, reports Isaac Nellist.
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Rising Tide said the People’s Blockade of the coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle will go ahead, despite the Supreme Court ruling in favour of the NSW Police. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Thirty-seven social and environmental organisations, together with the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties, are calling on NSW Labor to repeal the undemocratic protest laws. Aneesa Bhamjee reports.
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Parts of NSW’s harsh anti-protest laws have been declared unconstitutional by the NSW Supreme Court. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Draconian bail conditions have been imposed on activists protesting a weapons expo, after some were assaulted by arms dealers. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Extinction Rebellion's Drum Rebellion is campaigning against the undemocratic New South Wales anti-protest laws. David Killingly reports.