Jocelyn McGarity
Jocelyn McGarity is a Senior Solicitor at Climate Defenders Australia, Australia’s first dedicated legal service to protect, empower and advance the rights of frontline environmental and climate defenders.
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Under siege: the so-called right to protest and the criminalisation of dissent in Australia
You could be forgiven for assuming that we have a robustly protected ‘right to protest’ in Australia. The ‘right to assemble in public’ has long been respected in common law legal systems; but in Australia, this right only applies if it is not overridden by parliamentary laws.
