Over in NSW, Premier Chris Minns said he does not know how a Nazi rally was held with approval from police outside state parliament on Saturday.
“I don’t know the circumstances of how that march or protest was approved. I know the NSW Police commissioner wasn’t aware of it, and he’s looking at it, holding an inquiry into those circumstances so that it doesn’t happen again,” Minns said on Nine’s Today show.
A National Socialist Network rally held outside NSW parliament on Saturday.Credit: Flavio Brancaleone
About 60 members of the National Socialist Network attended the rally, which held a large banner that read “Abolish the Jewish Lobby”.
Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said a notice of the NSN’s intention to hold the rally – made by a known leader of the group, with the stated purpose of criticising Jewish organisations – was first lodged with Sydney City Local Area Command on October 28.
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Minns said “these groups” understand how to skirt laws and protest applications.
“These groups work incredibly hard at trying to skirt the law and make it difficult to prosecute under the existing legislation, so I understand why police’s hands are often tied,” he said.
“Mal and the police have made a serious point, and that is, are the existing laws in New South Wales fit for purpose when confronting this kind of naked hate, hate and racism on our streets? And the answer to that is probably no.”
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