A Palestine rally will be held in King George Square in Brisbane tonight to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.
Yesterday, police applied to a court for the protest not to be authorised. They claimed it was unsafe to conduct a march after dark, and that they had insufficient resources to safely close it.
However, the judge ruled in favour of the protest organisers given they had followed the proper legal process under the Peaceful Assembly Act of lodging a Notice of Intention to march on the road a whole four weeks earlier.
The protest will be at 5:30pm.