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“I don’t want to see protests on our streets at all, from anybody” — Yasmin Catley, NSW Police Minister Long before her arrest, Violet Coco knew that she’d be…

“I don’t want to see protests on our streets at all, from anybody” — Yasmin Catley, NSW Police Minister Long before her arrest, Violet Coco knew that she’d be…

Australian authorities are dramatically ramping up the sentences faced by peaceful climate crisis protesters

As protesters use more provocative tactics, state governments are responding with heavy-handed laws to stop them

Policing of protest has long been fraught in New South Wales. Over years a slow creep has chipped away at the right to peaceful public assembly. We reached an ugly and repressive high watermark this year. Legal changes and growing police repression against climate protestors has been widely documented (for example, here and here).

Conditions imposed on activists are now more severe than those meted out to some perpetrators of domestic violence or members of bikie gangs.

Student activists were met with heavy police repression at yesterday’s protest against a higher education summit, with protesters being tackled, pepper-sprayed…

Opinion piece on the right to protest in NSW.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has weighed in on the US abortion ruling, as leaders around the world condemn the decision to overturn Roe V Wade.

Amnesty International has criticised new anti-protest legislation in NSW, saying it has a "chilling effect on the freedom of assembly".