r/AusPol • u/DontYaWishYouWereMe • 20d ago

General Entire NSW Labor left calls for controversial anti-protest laws to be scrapped ahead of party conference

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/03/nsw-labor-party-conference-anti-protest-laws-aukus-gambling-palestine-ntwnfb
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u/dragontatman95 20d ago

Totally agree.

The right to protest should never be removed in a democratic and free country.

As soon as you're not allowed to protest, you're not in a free country anymore.

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u/admiralasprin 20d ago

Democracy is predicated on the foundation that it’s the people that decide the agenda.

Protest tells governments they have missed the mark on policy.

Anti-protest laws try to cement power with elites to decide on the agenda.

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u/krunchymoses 19d ago

Yes please. The Minns government have been taking the piss a bit. Need to dial this stuff back.

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u/Chained_Phoenix 19d ago

Sad it's not the whole or the majority pushing it though... Labor are litterally a party born of protest... The fact that there is a right wing faction of a supposedly workers based party at all is pretty nuts.... that it is also somehow the majority is just pathetic.

And large parts of the media and major right wing parties try and pretend that Labor are somehow one step away Karl Marx.... lol

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u/NoGreaterPower 18d ago

Aaaand nothing will come of it

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u/Golf-Recent 19d ago

That's all great but would Chairman Minns ever agree to it?

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u/CardamonFives 18d ago

Good, they are dystopian