“Police can erect fencing and barricades and create checkpoints; stop and search vehicles or persons about to enter or who are in declared areas; and ask for identification from persons in declared areas or about to enter the areas. And there is no indication as to what form of identification would be satisfactory, no criteria has been established. (…)
Under this bill people can be placed on a list, which can be a secret list, and not be told if or why they are on the list and, as a result of their inclusion, be excluded from whatever areas the police determine they cannot enter. It is probable that the Commissioner of Police will list well-known activists, some of who may have a trial pending, but against whom no offence has been recorded. It is probable that the list will include people who have been arrested at earlier public protests only to have the police subsequently drop the charges because those charges were unsustainable. It is probable that the police will have on their list well-known activists whom they simply prefer not be there; people who may never have been arrested or charged with anything. But we will never know, as there is no requirement for the list to be made public.”