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Jack Gramenz and Samantha Lock

'Leave the knife at home': new laws to keep people safe

Sydney train stations could be among places where police will use proposed wanding provisions. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

NSW police will be able to stop and search people for a weapon without reasonable suspicion or a warrant under new laws designed to make the public feel safer and deter people from carrying knives.

Premier Chris Minns said the changes were "commonsense" after a spate of high-profile stabbing attacks, including a massacre at Sydney's Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in which six people were killed by a knife-wielding man last month.

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