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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tamsin Rose

Sydney pro-Palestine rally to go ahead on Saturday despite premier’s concern over ‘bad faith actors’

People participate in a Pro-Palestine demonstration in Sydney, Sunday, October 15
About 6,000 people attended a ‘static’ peaceful protest, organised by the Palestinian Action Group, in Sydney’s Hyde Park on Sunday. Photograph: Steven Saphore/AAP

Saturday’s planned pro-Palestine march through the streets of Sydney will go ahead unless police launch an 11th-hour legal challenge amid rising concern about unrest.

The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, said a final decision on the event would be up to the police while warning the government had been briefed by senior officers who had expressed concern about the event due to “changed circumstances”.

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