The protest organisers are seeking to work with police on their concerns. Nobody should be subject to arbitrary search and compulsory identification simply for exercising their right to freely assemble.
“Designated areas” in Victoria should also be criticised, but teenagers don’t have a human right to carry a flick knife.
The right to protest should be protected. No matter what. The police want to call this particular protest “illegal”, and enacting these powers to search will have a chilling effect. The Human Rights Law Centre has condemned the NSW police minister and police for this.
The protest organisers are seeking to work with police on their concerns. Nobody should be subject to arbitrary search and compulsory identification simply for exercising their right to freely assemble.
“Designated areas” in Victoria should also be criticised, but teenagers don’t have a human right to carry a flick knife.