Overview

• In a late-night parliamentary adjournment debate, MLC Anthony D’Adam accused Premier Chris Minns and the NSW Labor caucus of “stultifying” party culture by silencing discussion on Gaza.
• D’Adam said he was heckled in Monday’s caucus meeting, with several ministers moving a motion to gag him after he criticised the party’s opposition to the Sydney Harbour Bridge protest.
• Despite Minns’s calls to cancel the march, more than 100,000 people, including several NSW Labor MPs, joined the mass pro-Palestine demonstration across the bridge last weekend.
• The premier has defended internal processes as robust, backed new protest-curbing laws and reiterated his stance against the Sydney Harbour Bridge demonstration.
• The public dispute highlights growing risk aversion within the party and raises doubts about Labor’s capacity to accommodate dissent on foreign policy and civil-liberties issues.