Overview
- Matilda Lane-Rose has launched a Supreme Court challenge to her exclusion and was granted access to the Land Forces security zone between 8am and 6pm on Tuesday while the case proceeds.
- WA Police placed about a dozen people on an excluded-persons list that bars them from the expo precinct around the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre and nearby public transport hubs.
- The state granted police roughly $11.5 million and temporary powers for the event that let officers set checkpoints, search bags and vehicles, seize items and issue directions within the security zone.
- Protest organisers plan a large anti-war march expected to draw thousands outside the secured area and say it will be peaceful, citing objections to arms exports and the defence industry’s role.
- Premier and police leaders defend the measures as needed to protect delegates and the expo’s economic aims, while legal and civil-rights groups argue the exclusions lacked procedural fairness and could be legally tested with wider consequences for public protest.