HISTORICAL FACTS: The palestine action group - The Untold Story

NSW spent almost $500,000 on court cases lost against pro-Palestine protest groups

Exclusive: Documents show $117,455 was spent in a single legal fight over laws rushed through after Bondi attack

The Guardian - AU · Jul 9

Police drop charges against Palestinian Australian protester arrested at Isaac Herzog rally as more set to be withdrawn

Move comes as police review charges against protesters from Sydney rally made under now-defunct public assembly law

The Guardian - AU · May 13

NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack

Court finds law – which effectively meant protesters could not march without risk of arrest – is unconstitutional

The Guardian - AU · Apr 16

NSW police commissioner urged to apologise to ‘entire Muslim community’ after officers disrupted prayer at Sydney protest

Mal Lanyon says police were ‘required’ to disperse crowd, while Mehreen Faruqi accused them of ‘assaulting Muslims

The Guardian - AU · Feb 11

Shadow attorney general says it would be unacceptable to ‘effectively knife’ first female Liberal leader – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Feb 10

Sydney police accused of using excessive force as at least 27 arrested for protesting Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit

Police made at least 27 arrests amid allegations of excessive force used against protesters and rights groups

The Independent UK · Feb 10

Isaac Herzog meets survivors of Bondi terror attack as thousands in Sydney and Melbourne protest visit

Israeli president will meet prime minister Anthony Albanese and travel to Canberra and Melbourne as pro-Palestine supporters stage protests

The Guardian - AU · Feb 9

Court challenge over march against Israeli president’s visit to be decided at Monday morning hearing

Palestine Action Group march planned from Sydney Town Hall to NSW parliament in breach of public assembly declaration

The Guardian - AU · Feb 8

Albanese says Isaac Herzog’s visit will bring unity – but to many Palestinian Australians it’s a ‘slap in the face’

The Israeli president’s visit, announced after the antisemitic attack in Bondi, has appalled those grieving loved ones killed in Gaza

The Guardian - AU · Feb 7

NSW Labor politicians to protest Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit in defiance of premier

Cameron Murphy, one of three MLCs to rally next week, says ‘we should not be welcoming to Australia the head of a state engaged in an ongoing genocide’

The Guardian - AU · Feb 4