Is the right to protest being undermined in Australia?

FEB 17, 202629 MIN
Law Report

Is the right to protest being undermined in Australia?

FEB 17, 202629 MIN

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<p>Queensland has introduced a bill to ban the slogans "from the river to the sea" and "globalise the intifada". Western Australia wants to give police the power to refuse a protest permit if a public event is deemed likely to promote hate. It comes after New South Wales imposed tight restrictions on the Sydney protest against the visit of Israel's president Isaac Herzog.</p>