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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Michael McGowan

NSW protest bill leaves Labor wedged between a roadblock and a hard place

Anyone who ‘seriously disrupts or obstructs vehicles or pedestrians’ on a major road in NSW could be jailed for up to two years.
Anyone who ‘seriously disrupts or obstructs vehicles or pedestrians’ on a major road in NSW could be jailed for up to two years. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

On Wednesday night, as the New South Wales parliament debated a bill that makes blocking roads in the state a jail-worthy offence, the independent MP for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, asked, rhetorically, what had prompted the government’s urgency to pass the legislation.

The bill had been introduced into the parliament late on Wednesday afternoon, with the Coalition providing a one-page brief and no forewarning to the crossbench.

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