# Why police clashed with Sydney protesters

An episode of [ABC News Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1349523628), 10 Feb 2026, 16 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/hg/Z/bu.mp3

The protesters came in force, but what began peacefully descended into chaos. Around 6,000 people had gathered to condemn the visit to Sydney by the Israeli president but there were violent clashes with police after they were ordered to disperse. Today, law professor Luke McNamara from the University of New South Wales on the new protest laws brought in after the Bondi attack and why he thinks the Labor government has gone too far. Featured: Luke McNamara, Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice and the University of New South Wales

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