NSW Police now decide who can protest
The Echo
08/01/2026
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The English poet Michael Rosen (1946–) wrote:
‘I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress, worn by grotesques and monsters, as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend’. And despite my guest Echo editorial and Aslan Shand’s cautioning follow-up on protest laws, the NSW government response to Bondi has seen a huge transfer of power from the courts to the police.
- NSW Police now decide who can protest
- David Heilpern - Southern Cross University
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