The New South Wales police force have been ordered to apologise for ‘racially vilifying’ Palestinians and Arabs after wearing their traditional headscarves in a terrorism training exercise in October 2017.
The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Thursday found the use of the scarves was an ‘unreasonable and unnecessary’ way of identifying the armed offenders in the scenario.
The tribunal said the officers acting as perpetrators could have worn other items of clothing to be identified, such as balaclavas or masks, instead of clothing identified with particular cultural communities in Australia.