{"id":15844,"date":"2022-03-31T01:33:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T01:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=15844"},"modified":"2022-03-31T01:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T01:33:57","slug":"nteu-condemns-nsw-government-attack-on-right-to-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/nteu-condemns-nsw-government-attack-on-right-to-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"NTEU condemns NSW Government attack on right to protest\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;National&nbsp;Tertiary&nbsp;Education&nbsp;Union&nbsp;(NTEU)&nbsp;NSW has condemned the NSW Government\u2019s latest attack on the right to protest in the form of its&nbsp;<em>Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill 2022&nbsp;<\/em>which was introduced in NSW Parliament with little notice last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>With penalties of up to two years in gaol or up to $22,000 in fines, this proposed legislation potentially criminalises and prohibits any protest that occurs without police approval on any major road in NSW,\u201d NTEU NSW Secretary Dr Damien Cahill said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDespite amendments passed by Labor, the Bill also potentially criminalises many activities that union members take as part of protected industrial action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is not just industrial action but other forms of protest such as around climate change that may be criminalised by this Bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Bill diminishes civil and industrial liberties and should be opposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople who are protesting and calling on governments to take more urgent action around climate change will be considered heroes by future generations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is reckless and disgraceful that the NSW Government is attempting to silence their voices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;National&nbsp;Tertiary&nbsp;Education&nbsp;Union&nbsp;(NTEU)&nbsp;NSW has condemned the NSW Government\u2019s latest attack on the right to protest in the form of its&nbsp;Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill 2022&nbsp;which was introduced in NSW Parliament with little notice last night. \u201cWith penalties of up to two years in gaol or up to $22,000 in fines, this proposed legislation potentially criminalises and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/nteu-condemns-nsw-government-attack-on-right-to-protest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NTEU condemns NSW Government attack on right to protest\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15845,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions\/15845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}