On this episode of The Sydneyist podcast ‘Protesting The Law of Protest’ Elizabeth Farrelly spoke with Professor Simon Rice about our increasingly draconian protest laws in New South Wales. Are we becoming a police state?

In NSW, unlike Queensland, Victoria and the ACT, there is no right to protest, protests must be approved by police and you can be jailed for climbing on ‘a structure.’

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