NSW parliament is expected to pass hate speech and gun laws in the coming hours in the wake of the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, as Premier Chris Minns doubles down against a constitutional challenge in court.
Minns said the bill, designed to drastically change hate speech and gun laws in NSW, has passed the lower house and is expected to pass parliament later today or early tomorrow morning.
"The passage of this legislation is the single best thing we can do in the short run to keep the people of NSW safe," he told reporters this afternoon.
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"I understand it's very difficult to cobble together a political party to pass meaningful reform, but the Labor Party and the Liberal Party together have managed to do that in the last 24 hours."
The reforms include a controversial ban on protests during a terrorism declaration, which would allow NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon to extend an initial 14-day declaration to up to three months.
It has already received a constitutional challenge in the High Court over the potential impact it will have on civil liberties.
But Minns said he is confident the law will withstand the challenge.
"All I will say is that we've run our legislation thoroughly through the Crown solicitor," he said.
Minns linked the actions of some who have attended pro-Palestine protests to the Bondi shooting and said organisers are "unleashing force that they can't control".
"In virtually all aspects of government policy, there's an acknowledgement that words lead to actions. We hear it all the time. We accept that it is true," he said.
"But if that's the case, as an idea or a concept, then that must be the situation as it applies to protests in NSW.
"How can it be that a protest can take place in the state and there's a swastika tattooed on the Star of David on a poster in the middle of the city?
"Or photos of the Ayatollah, the leader of Iran? Or posters or flags of Hezbollah or Hamas? The terrorist leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, a big framed picture of that leader there? Shirts saying, 'Death to the IDF'. A sign that says 'All Zionists are neo-Nazis.'"
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Minns reiterated he wanted a "summer of calm" following the horror scenes at Bondi Beach on December 14.
"I think that a big mass protest through the heart of Sydney at the moment would be ruinous for our unity, and I don't resolve from that," he said.
The Palestine Action Group, Jews Against the Occupation and the First Nations-led Blak Caucus together have launched the constitutional challenge, saying the proposed reforms are undemocratic.
"This is the latest set of Chris Minns knee-jerk, undemocratic anti-protest laws, which are being passed again on the basis of a series of lies and misinformation and outrageous conflating of this horrible antisemitic attack at Bondi, with the protest movement more broadly, and with the Palestine protest movement in particular," Palestine Action Group organiser Josh Lees said at a press conference today.
"These laws, if passed, don't just affect the Palestine movement.
"These laws will take away the rights of everyone in NSW to gather together as a community, to express their views, to express their opposition to whatever government policies they oppose, to demand change."
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