7m ago14.43 AEDT
Anti-immigration rally in Sydney draws small crowd
No more than 200 people have joined an anti-immigration rally in a park in central
Sydney after police and the premier,
Chris Minns, urged it to not go ahead.
Barnaby Joyce, who earlier this month joined One Nation, is due to speak any moment.
In a short press conference before the rally kicked off, he was asked why he hadn’t respected calls for the rally to not go ahead. He said it wasn’t a rally, but a meeting, adding: “Do you see people charging around, yelling and screaming?”
There is a large police presence at the event. A number of attendees are waving Australian flags, and wearing orange One Nation t-shirts. One person holds a sign that says “Islam is incompatible with the West”.
One speaker began the rally by telling attendees:
There was a lot of mainstream media coverage warning you about not coming … So the fact that you are here means that you are a small group of some of the bravest Australians in this country.
She then led a chant, saying “Export Terrorists” and “Albanese has to go”.
Minns told Nine’s Today program when asked about the rally on Sunday:
Don’t do it. Don’t go ahead with it right now – people are burying their dead.
11m ago14.39 AEDT
NSW Health update on patients in hospital
Earlier we
brought you an update from health authorities on the people still being treated in hospital for injuries sustained in last Sunday’s attack.
As of 2pm today, according to
NSW Health, there are still 13 patients being treated, at the Prince of Wales, St George, St Vincent’s, Royal Prince Alfred and Royal North Shore hospitals:
- Four people are now in a critical but stable condition
- Nine people are in a stable condiiton.
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