Minns must apologise for overturned NSW protest laws or resign

A power-packed NSW Court of Appeal – Chief Justice Andrew Bell, Chief Justice Julie Ward and Justice Stephen Free – has definitively declared NSW Premier Chris Minns a constitutional vandal.

Minns’ response was: he was “disappointed”. Properly, he should either apologize to the people of NSW and promise to change his ways, or resign. Let me explain why.

Laws derived from moral panic are always bad. Ten days after the Bondi massacre, the Minns government introduced new laws that dramatically changed the landscape of public gatherings.