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NSW spent almost $500,000 on court cases lost against pro-Palestine protest groups

Exclusive: Documents show $117,455 was spent in a single legal fight over laws rushed through after Bondi attack

The Guardian - AU

Police drop charges against Palestinian Australian protester arrested at Isaac Herzog rally as more set to be withdrawn

Move comes as police review charges against protesters from Sydney rally made under now-defunct public assembly law

The Guardian - AU

NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack

Court finds law – which effectively meant protesters could not march without risk of arrest – is unconstitutional

The Guardian - AU

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Police planned to disperse Isaac Herzog protest in Sydney if crowd hit 6,000, encrypted messages suggest

Senior public servant wrote ‘police will be dispersing them if numbers exceed capacity’ while premier says protesters confronted after attempting to march

The Guardian - AU

Pro-Palestine protest organisers ‘a pack of communists’ intent on confrontation with police, Minns tells budget estimates

New South Wales premier faces questions over what he told MPs who attended demonstration opposing Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit

The Guardian - AU

Minns government undermined social cohesion with NSW protest restrictions, constitutional challenge hears

Lawyer for protest groups argues state needs to prove it was ‘rational to prevent all protests’ to achieve its goal

The Guardian - AU

Australia police watchdog to investigate complaints of brutality at protests against Israeli president

Independent police oversight body says it is ‘in public interest’ to examine the violent confrontations between police and protesters at Sydney Town Hall

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NSW police commissioner urged to apologise to ‘entire Muslim community’ after officers disrupted prayer at Sydney protest

Mal Lanyon says police were ‘required’ to disperse crowd, while Mehreen Faruqi accused them of ‘assaulting Muslims

The Guardian - AU

Shadow attorney general says it would be unacceptable to ‘effectively knife’ first female Liberal leader – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Sydney police accused of using excessive force as at least 27 arrested for protesting Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit

Police made at least 27 arrests amid allegations of excessive force used against protesters and rights groups

The Independent UK

Isaac Herzog meets survivors of Bondi terror attack as thousands in Sydney and Melbourne protest visit

Israeli president will meet prime minister Anthony Albanese and travel to Canberra and Melbourne as pro-Palestine supporters stage protests

The Guardian - AU

Court challenge over march against Israeli president’s visit to be decided at Monday morning hearing

Palestine Action Group march planned from Sydney Town Hall to NSW parliament in breach of public assembly declaration

The Guardian - AU

Albanese says Isaac Herzog’s visit will bring unity – but to many Palestinian Australians it’s a ‘slap in the face’

The Israeli president’s visit, announced after the antisemitic attack in Bondi, has appalled those grieving loved ones killed in Gaza

The Guardian - AU

NSW Labor politicians to protest Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit in defiance of premier

Cameron Murphy, one of three MLCs to rally next week, says ‘we should not be welcoming to Australia the head of a state engaged in an ongoing genocide’

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The Guardian - AU

Palestine Action Group plans march against Isaac Herzog’s visit despite protest restrictions

Calls for NSW police to ‘exercise their discretion’ and facilitate a peaceful rally in Sydney on 9 February while Israeli president visits Australia

The Guardian - AU

Albanese defends Isaac Herzog’s Australia visit as federal MP joins calls to rescind invitation

Independent MP Sophie Scamps joins Labor’s Friends of Palestine group and Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi in objecting to Israeli president’s visit

The Guardian - AU

Ban on ‘globalise the intifada’ risks importing ‘repressive models’ from UK, NSW inquiry after Bondi attack told

Australian National Imams Council say criminalising slogan will unduly impact Muslim Australians including Palestinian and Arab communities

The Guardian - AU

Activist groups to challenge NSW protest laws on free speech grounds as Chris Minns says he’s ‘confident’ in reforms

Pro-Palestine and Indigenous activist groups say state government ‘trying to strip away the right to peacefully protest for everyone’ in wake of Bondi attack

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The Guardian - AU

NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack

Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’

The Guardian - AU

NSW anti-protest law ruled unconstitutional after Palestine Action Group court challenge

PAG had challenged expanded police powers to restrict protests near places of worship

The Guardian - AU

A pro-Palestine march to the Sydney Opera House has been blocked by a court. Here’s what protesters will do instead

With the protest’s endpoint changed, the Sydney demonstration organised by the Palestine Action Group will go ahead with the support of NSW police

The Guardian - AU

Judges prohibit pro-Palestine march to Sydney Opera House and say protesters risk contempt of court

In landmark ruling, NSW court of appeal says anyone attending prohibited protest could be held in contempt of court

The Conversation

View from The Hill: Two years of a distant war have brought much damage to Australian society

Two years ago, who would have imagined the police and the Palestine Action Group (PAG) would be fighting in court over whether demonstrators should be allowed to rally outside the Sydney Opera House?

The Guardian - AU

Pro-Palestine activists ask court to make genocide ruling during battle over Sydney Opera House protest

Palestine Action Group argues ongoing killing in Gaza means Sydney march scheduled for Sunday has prerequisite ‘seriousness and urgency’

The Guardian - AU

Pro-Palestine protesters fight police decision to block Sydney Opera House protest on 12 October

NSW supreme court will have final say over whether demonstrators will be given legal protections during march this month

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