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Activists plan legal action against police ban on entering security zone near Perth weapons expo

Under new WA laws anyone who defies an exclusion order could face a maximum $36,000 fine and three years in prison

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2

Tough police powers to target 'hate-promoting' protests

Police will get the power to reject protest applications they believe could promote hate under planned state laws.

AAP · Feb 15

‘Outrageous’: EPA backs WA fracking project that may add up to 2.6% to Australia’s emissions

State environmental regulator says Valhalla project, set to drill up to 20 gas wells in Canning basin, can proceed subject to conditions

The Guardian - AU · Jan 21

NSW push to stop climate protesters livestreaming on Facebook labelled ‘profoundly anti-democratic’

Premier Chris Minns claims climate activists such as Blockade Australia are endangering lives by streaming protest actions

The Guardian - AU · Jun 22, 2023

SA opposition leader criticised over beheading remark when defending anti-protest laws

David Speirs said protest was ‘a good thing’, but ‘there are some countries where your head would be cut off for doing that sort of protest’

The Guardian - AU · May 22, 2023

Australia’s credibility on human rights blighted by laws targeting climate protesters and jailing children, report says

Human Rights Watch calls on government to address its own ‘alarming deficiencies’, including detention of children under 14 and treatment of asylum seekers

The Guardian - AU · Jan 12, 2023

Australia's human rights credibility undermined by domestic record, new report finds

Human Rights Watch highlights more Indigenous Australians died in custody last year than in 2021, and that new laws targeting climate protesters resulted in harsher penalties against activists.

ABC News · Jan 12, 2023

Climate Protestor Violet Coco Granted Bail After She Was Sentenced To 15 Months In Prison

She was sentenced under wild new NSW protest laws.

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 2, 2022

NSW failed Lismore flood victims: report

Local and state authorities failed to protect at-risk Lismore residents - the elderly, disabled and pregnant - from record-breaking floods, a new report says.

AAP · Nov 3, 2022

Pilbara pound to get full air-conditioning before Roebourne Prison

Stray dogs and cats picked up in the Pilbara will move into an air-conditioned facility in time for the hottest months, as the state government rules out air conditioning in cells at WA's hottest prison.

ABC News · Nov 1, 2022