Hundreds of demonstrators gathered below South Australian parliament's upper house this morning to voice opposition to changes to the state's protest laws.
abc.net.au/news/sa-protest-law-opposed-outside-parliament-house/102409004Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered below South Australian parliament's upper house to voice opposition to the government's proposed changes to the state's protest laws, which have been labelled by one crossbench MP as "the worst move ever by a South Australian Labor premier".
Crossbench MPs from the Greens and SA Best were in attendance, as was Labor MLC Irene Pnevmatikos, and former long-term Labor MP Steph Key addressed the crowd. "Mali better take a good hard look at what he's done today, because this is his rank and file out here. "These laws could be used on all sorts of activity, from people handing out pamphlets in Rundle Mall to protesting on the footpath outside state parliament all the way through to picketing a worksite in the wake of a workplace death," he said.'No change' to fundamental rights, premier says
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