Sydney pro-Palestine rally to go ahead on Saturday despite premier’s concern over ‘bad faith actors’

Chris Minns says he believes protesters do not want ‘hate speech within their march’ but final decision on event is up to NSW police

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Saturday’s planned pro-Palestine march through the streets of Sydney will go ahead unless police launch an 11th-hour legal challenge amid rising concern about unrest.

The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, said a final decision on the event would be up to the police while warning the government had been briefed by senior officers who had expressed concern about the event due to “changed circumstances”.

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