Supreme Court rules that bridge march can proceed

The NSW Supreme Court has green-lit a march by ostensibly pro-Palestinian protesters across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday.

In ruling it could go ahead, Justice Belinda Rigg said organisers the Palestine Action Group (PAG) had “ensured that people’s safety was a priority” on previous protest days, according to The Australian.

The Australian reported that Justice Rigg accepted evidence from PAG organiser Josh Lees that the timing of the march was “based on his view that ‘we are at a critical moment, on the issue of Palestinian rights not only due to the crisis in Gaza, itself, but also due to awareness of that crisis brought about by the horrific images, published in the media recently’.”

(It is not clear whether Justice Rigg is aware that at least two such images have been debunked.)

“Mr Lees’ evidence indicates that the timing and the lodging of this proposed march and its location is directly responsive to the dramatic increase in the known suffering of Gazan citizens over the last weeks,” Justice Rigg said, according to The Australian.