A premier has accepted the buck stops with him after passing over internal advice that warned about excessive policing before he gave his state's top officer extra power to restrict protests.
NSW Premier Chris Minns was warned by the state Cabinet Office's national security executive director that any legislative response to December's Bondi terrorist attack had to give careful consideration to proportionality, judicial oversight and community engagement.
"We had to make difficult decisions that I do not resile from, they were tough in the circumstances, but they were right both then and now, even in hindsight," the premier told reporters on Monday.
