NSW MP rebuffed by security after asking to relocate planned neo-Nazi protest away from parliament

The independent member for Lake Macquarie, Greg Piper, asked parliament’s internal security to move the planned neo-Nazi protest away from NSW parliament in Sydney, but was told it wasn’t possible. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

The New South Wales speaker says he asked parliamentary security to relocate Saturday’s neo-Nazi rally but was told his request to move it from the front of the building was not possible.

Greg Piper, the house speaker in NSW’s Legislative Assembly, told Guardian Australia a member of his staff advised him about the planned rally late on Friday afternoon.