Crisafulli crackdown on Gaza slogans worse than Bjelke-Petersen

In 1971, Joh Bjelke-Petersen declared a full-fledged state of emergency in an attempt to protect a touring rugby team from the apartheid regime in South Africa. But even at its worst, the Bjelke-Petersen government has not gone as far as current Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, who this week announced plans to chant “from river to sea Palestine will be free”. punished with two years imprisonment.

In fact, Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s current visit resembles in many ways the Springboks’ 1971 tour of South Africa.