{"id":30113,"date":"2024-11-15T02:59:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T02:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=30113"},"modified":"2024-11-15T02:59:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T02:59:57","slug":"anti-protest-report-tabled-43-days-late-and-ignores-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/anti-protest-report-tabled-43-days-late-and-ignores-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-protest report tabled 43 days late and ignores community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The NSW Government has tabled a report<\/u><\/a> on the review into the Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 2022, 43 days after it was legally obliged to do so, and has ignored thousands of submissions from the public calling for a repeal of the anti-protest laws. The report was tabled as the NSW Parliament debated a motion by the Greens to disallow new regulations that extend the laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greens MP and spokesperson for justice Sue Higginson<\/strong> said \u201cThe report that has been tabled today is a disgrace, it has failed to listen to the community consultation and has disregarded the fact that it was more than a month overdue and that the laws have been declared partially unconstitutional by the Supreme Court,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPublic consultation, like protest, is a key pillar of our democracy – this report is a spit in the face to both of those pillars. The public consultation in this case, where only one submission out of thousands supported the anti-protest laws, has resulted in no recommendation for change. This erodes the public\u2019s trust in Parliament and our democracy, I am furious,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Government has failed to abide by the laws that they rushed through in 2022 by failing to table the report on 1 October, yet they have the temerity to expand those laws while the community was still waiting to hear back on the consultation that we had to fight so hard for,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Greens fought against these laws in 2022, and this new expansion is something we are attempting to disallow in Parliament today. The community should feel empowered to engage in peaceful protests, even if it\u2019s inconvenient for others – that\u2019s sometimes the point or consequence of protest,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a shame that the NSW Labor Party is no longer a party that understands the importance of protests, strikes and other acts of political communication to the Government.\u201d Ms Higginson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NSW Government has tabled a report on the review into the Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 2022, 43 days after it was legally obliged to do so, and has ignored thousands of submissions from the public calling for a repeal of the anti-protest laws. The report was tabled as the NSW Parliament debated a motion … Continue reading “Anti-protest report tabled 43 days late and ignores community”<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30113","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=30113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30114,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30113\/revisions\/30114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}