Protests
Dozens of weapons searches by police deemed unlawful due to blunders
Searches that didn’t comply with the law resulted in 33 people being charged or fined. All will be contacted by police and could have a basis to appeal their cases.
- Cameron Houston
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‘I wouldn’t move to Victoria’: Pauline Hanson speaks at Melbourne anti-immigration rally
At the Put Australia First rally, which also featured UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson via video, Hanson criticised the Victorian government, saying she would never move here.
- Roy Ward and Bridie Smith
Land Forces protester had dozens of homemade explosives, bombed a toilet cubicle at expo
A Melbourne woman is facing a possible jail term after planting a homemade explosive at the exhibition.
- Erin Pearson
- Updated
- Extremism
Prison time, $22,000 fines for Nazi chants in new laws
Those who make public displays supporting Nazi ideology will face jail time under new laws proposed by the NSW government.
- Jessica McSweeney and Patrick Begley
How this artist is reinventing the idea of an Aussie, one poster at a time
Peter Drew’s “Aussie” series of works on walls across the country asks questions about identity and who belongs in this country – but not everyone is happy to see them.
- Kerrie O'Brien
Benny has protested in a costume for decades. He says his mask is art, not criminality
One of his retired masks is on display in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. But 80-year-old Benny Zable’s extravagant protest costume was almost criminalised.
- Rachel Eddie
Police hunt more protesters over planned rock-throwing attack on officers
Images have been released of seven more protesters accused of assaulting police during street violence in Melbourne last month.
- Angus Delaney
- Opinion
- Extremism
Ignore these neo-Nazis at our peril: Evil left unchallenged will be normalised
They lie and hijack the ANZAC legend while defiling the memory of almost 40,000 Australians who died fighting Nazi Germany.
- David Ossip
Police ‘sick and tired’ as they hunt eight protesters over rock attacks
Police are searching for eight protesters who allegedly threw rocks and bottles at officers, two of whom were hospitalised.
- Angus Delaney and Marta Pascual Juanola
Police say they were powerless to stop a neo-Nazi rally. Experts suggest otherwise
NSW Police sought prohibition orders to ban marches across the Harbour Bridge and at the Opera House. At Parliament House on Saturday, it said it could not act.
- Michaela Whitbourn
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