Police with machine guns at Sydney New Year’s Eve are part of ‘fundamental changes’ after Bondi, Minns says

NSW premier Chris Minns says security measures have changed in Paris and Rome ‘and they are going to have to change here’. Photograph: Dominic Giannini/AAP

The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns has promised a massive security presence on the streets of Sydney on New Year’s Eve including police armed with machine guns and a possible army deployment.

Speaking at the site of the massacre of 15 people at Bondi beach on 14 December, Minns said some people will find the extra security confronting, but “we won’t be mucking around.”