The Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, justified the state’s rushed crackdown on climate change protesters by citing an incident that occurred in the state more than 14 years ago.
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| Police apply acetone to the hands of Extinction Rebellion activists after they super-glued their hands to the road on the William Jolly Bridge on 11 October. |
In announcing the new suite of laws in August, Palaszczuk claimed that activists had laced so-called locking devices with traps including “even butane gas containers so that anyone trying to cut a protester free will be injured or worse”.
The claims have been repeated and described as recent events, despite there being no evidence to support them, by multiple media outlets since.
Inspector Shane Williams, a police officer considered an expert on attachment devices used by protesters, was asked at a public hearing on Friday whether he was aware of incidents involving butane or other gas canisters being added to such a device.
Read the story from The Guardian by Ben Smee - “Palaszczuk cites incident 14 years ago to justify crackdown on climate protesters.”
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