'There's no place for racial vilification in our multicultural community' says Chris Minns
The NSW Premier has reacted to the organised pro-Palestine rallies in Sydney establishing the need to balance the right to protest with the right to be free from vilification.
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00:00 I want to make it clear that we support the New South Wales Police in the difficult job
00:04 that they have to do over the weekend and the weeks ahead.
00:08 Managing the right to protest against the right of ordinary Australians to be free from
00:15 racial vilification or intimidation to violence is an extremely difficult task and the police
00:21 don't have an easy task ahead of them.
00:23 In fact, it won't be easy.
00:25 There is of course a right to protest in New South Wales but there's also a right to be
00:30 free from intimidation, from incitement to violence, from racial vilification or actual
00:36 violence in New South Wales.
00:39 It's important to note that the organisers of the march and assembly on Sunday were also
00:46 responsible for the march last Monday.
00:48 Now that was facilitated by the New South Wales Police and no one can claim that that
00:53 ended well.
00:54 We need to learn from the lessons from Monday night.
00:58 Police will of course be reasonable and proportionate on the weekend but it's important to note
01:04 that there will be no tolerance given for racial vilification, incitement to violence,
01:10 racism or vilification on New South Wales streets because there's no place for that
01:15 in our multicultural society.
01:17 Now obviously I'm concerned about the assembly on Sunday.
01:21 I'm hoping it's done peacefully and I'm hoping that the organisers and the participants
01:27 at that assembly prove me wrong and we can get through the weekend in a peaceful way.
01:31 Thank you.
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