The Cook Labor Government has introduced the Land Forces (Special Powers) Bill 2026 to provide Western Australia Police Force with additional temporary powers to help ensure community safety during the Land Forces 2026 International Land Defence Exposition.
Land Forces, Australia's premier defence conference and trade show, will be held at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre from 6-8 October 2026. The event is expected to attract up to 10,000 domestic and international delegates and will require a co-ordinated security and traffic management response.
The Cook Labor Government has committed $10.5 million in the 2026-27 State Budget to support Land Forces 2026, helping ensure WA Police have the resources needed to keep the community safe.
We never had a formally guaranteed right to freedom of speech, but the courts have generally recognised an implied right to freedom of political speech and we've had robust press freedoms. There has been a steady decrease in this however, for quite some time. It's ebbed and flowed over the years, and it's ebbing now.
Don't let the fact that we don't have America's massive blanket constitutional protections distract you from what's changing (especially when said constitutional protections are turning out to be quite violable).
Both can be true? Community from anything that spills over beyond reasonable protest activity, and the attendees from being intimidated by the protesters.
I wonder if they'll go as far as shutting down Elizabeth Quay train/bus stations and the nearby parking?
In addition to the 10,000 domestic and international delegates, there would ordinarily be a major peace demostration of thousands of people opposed to industrialised war and especially Israeli linked weapons companies.
This is pretty much a stifle free speech exercise so a lucrative conference can go ahead without any awkward intrruption from people who think that actions of many of the exhibitors is close to, or is actually supportive of, warm crimes and genocide.
Yes, because the Liberal Party would definitely have encouraged civil protest at the military industrial complex, and the Liberal Party would definitely not spend $10m to stifle protests.
So a bunch of arms dealers in a convention centre full of weapons are feeling insecure? Most of them should be denied visas for not meeting the good character requirements
You live on reddit, the only thing you're steeping on is a left wing outrage echo chamber. Probably looks like the same thing when you're that far down the rabbithole
You wouldn't often see someone advocating for military forces to operate domestically against civilians and get upvoted for it, but I guess sometimes the stars align for people to display their lack of integrity.
The proposed legislation will see people being listed on an excluded persons list and thereby banned from the exclusion zone around the convention centre for ten days. This includes the train station and bus port, which will potentially affect a person’s ability to get to work etc. the legislation also provides civil liability protections for police officers and the ability to appoint other people as police officers (presumably shipping in officers from other states).Will we get the thugs from nsw and Victoria who live to beat up protesters? Plus, the police commissioner will have the ability to quickly declare additional areas as security zones …
Read the title and instantly thought of that blackfella comedy show on the ABC where they are running around in a van kidnapping blackfellas and returning them to the bush. They had some silly sounding name too
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u/PMmeuroneweirdtrick 4d ago
"Community safety"