With fears of political extremism, Sussex Street has engaged an unprecedented level of security for this weekend’s NSW Labor state conference, with a series of fringe events also cancelled.
The NSW Labor Party has been forced to cancel a series of fringe events and employ the “largest security contingent” in the division’s history as Sussex Street prepares for a state conference to be rocked by major demonstrations and potential political extremism.
A pro-Palestine protest in Sydney in February. Labor organisers expect several thousand to demonstrate at the party’s state conference.Correspondence and confidential plans detailed by senior sources barred from discussing the matters publicly revealed the two-day event at Sydney Town Hall at the weekend would entail the “largest security contingent we’ve ever had”, including user-pay police and a series of measures aimed at mitigating any risk to delegates.
“At Conference NSW Labor will be implementing enhanced security measures. These measures are designed to ensure the safety of all attendees,” an email sent in early July said. “It won’t resemble any conference we’ve ever done. It will be more reflective of national conference,” the insider told this masthead, noting senior Labor HQ members were in constant conversation with NSW Police.About 20 to 30 fringe events, including a conversation with former Treasury secretary Ken Henry, that were to be held concurrently across the conference have been canned. A source said the ticketed conversations were open to non-party members and created issues for vetting attendees.
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