The NSW government has invoked special powers ahead of the Israeli president’s visit next week with the premier, Chris Minns, warning would-be protesters that police will not allow “conflict on Sydney streets”.
But 13 state and federal NSW MPs have written to the police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, appealing for him to work with protest organisers to facilitate a planned assembly and march from Town Hall to state parliament.
Several of the MPs have indicated they will join protesters in the march. The group pushed back at the premier, accusing him of trying to paint peaceful protest as “inconvenient and illegitimate”
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