The New South Wales supreme court has ruled a planned Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Lives Matter protest in Sydney on Saturday is unlawful. 9News READ MORE:
In banning Sydney's Black Lives Matter protests planned for tomorrow, NSW Supreme Court Justice Desmond Fagan said he appreciated the rally's central issue and that it was designed to be concurrent with similar events in other countries.
"I don't diminish the importance of the issues and no one would deny them in normal circumstances," he said.Other countries hadn't respected coronavirus and had suffered "markedly worse" than Australia, he said. Australians had also given up their livelihoods, pursuits, endeavours and rights to worship to help halt the spread of COVID-19, the judge said.
"Everyone has given up a lot in order to defeat the disease on the basis that this is best advice health officials have given us," he said. "A great many people have lost their livelihoods for the time being ... people have been unable to attend funeral services for loved ones."
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