Major Call on Sydney Protest Ban

Major call on Sydney protest ban

NSW Police has made a major call on protest restrictions across Sydney, a week after a violent rally against visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

NSW Supreme Court’s Reasons for Maintaining Major Events Declaration for Herzog Visit

by Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Organiser Josh Lees and the Palestine Action Group sought to have the order declaring the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Sydney commencing on 9 February 2026 a major event and hence, enliven extraordinary policing powers revoked by the NSW Supreme Court on the same day that the foreign official arrived in the city. Justice Robertson Wright, however, ruled the order stood. Palestine Action Grou…

Herzog protest – when politicans fail, police go rogue, justice fails to protect

Israel’s President Herzog has departed Australia, leaving less “social cohesion”, while politicians, justices and NSW police have many questions to answer. Wendy Bacon reports for Michael West Media. ANALYSIS: By Wendy Bacon Many who witnessed the horrific police violence in Sydney’s CBS on the evening of February 9 say they had never seen anything like it before. After a week of broadcasts of police “kettling”, viciously assaulting and pepper s…