Was the violent Sydney protest avoidable, and what can police and demonstrators learn? By Simon Bronitt Professor of Law, University of Sydney, The Conversation

No doubt, there will be investigations into the legality and reasonableness of the police response. But what’s also needed to prevent a repeat of Monday’s violence is a rethink of police training and protocols in NSW that are explicitly based on a respect for human rights, or what policing scholars call “human rights policing”.

Was the violent Sydney protest avoidable, and what can police and demonstrators learn? By Simon Bronitt Professor of Law, University of Sydney, The Conversation