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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jordyn Beazley

Invasion Day and anti-immigration marches to proceed in Sydney on 26 January after protest ban scaled back

NSW police commissioner Mal Lanyon, and chief superintendent Michael Sheehy.
NSW police commissioner Mal Lanyon, and chief superintendent Michael Sheehy. Lanyon said 1,500 police would be deployed to 26 January events. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The New South Wales police commissioner has extended a restriction on protests in Sydney for a third time, but narrowed the area it covers in a bid to get “the balance right between community safety and a right to protest” ahead of Invasion Day.

On Tuesday afternoon, Mal Lanyon, said the restrictions would no longer include Hyde Park, allowing police to authorise the major annual Invasion Day protest to march from that location to Victoria Park on Monday.

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