Activists have agreed that no Hezbollah flags will be flown, police say. Follow today’s news live

NSW police say they have not opposed revised plans by the Palestinian Action Group for a public assembly on Sunday 6 October, after the group agreed to change the location and route of the rally.

“Protest organisers have agreed that no flags, portraits or symbols connected to a prohibited terrorist organisation will be displayed,” police said in a statement on Thursday evening. A previous rally allegedly saw Hezbollah flags waved.

One of the changes, having listened to the parliamentary debate, as I did, obviously there was a lot of concern around debt, and that concerned me greatly. And so we’ve made a bit of a tweak in the agency, that if the agency was ever to pursue a debt against a participant, it would need to be signed off by me first, and so that puts a whole lot of safety nets through the process to kind of make it be really clear that raising any debt against a participant would be an absolute last resort.

We’re really clear that plan managers know what their expectations are. They know what they’ve got to be absolutely assisting participants. They should be in a really good place to know what you can and can’t claim for. One of the things they sign up for to be a plan manager is being compliant with the NDIS legislation.

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