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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Andrew Messenger

Two protesters charged on first day of Queensland’s ‘from the river to the sea’ ban

Two pro-Palestinian protesters have been charged with violating contentious new Queensland hate-speech laws, with one of them allegedly saying the banned phrase “from the river to the sea”.

The arrests occurred at a small protest march which started outside the state parliament building on Wednesday, just hours after the new laws, passed by parliament last week, went into effect.

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