'A patchwork quilt of repression': The disappearing right to protest in NSW
“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…
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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).