The NSW state government says it has accepted that police assaulted former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas at a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney last year. In legal submissions reported by outlets, lawyers for the government acknowledge that Thomas was “battered” by a police officer during the June incident. Other reporting states that the officer punched her while holding a torch, and that the blow caused serious injury to her eye.
The accounts describe the matter as a dispute being handled through legal proceedings, with the government’s position framed through admissions made by its lawyers. Details in the reports focus on what police allegedly did and the injuries that followed, including damage to Thomas’s eye. Both sources describe the incident as occurring at a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney and date it to June last year.
While the reporting differs in phrasing, they align on the core points: the incident occurred at the rally, Thomas is the person injured, and the government’s legal team has admitted police assaulted her, including force that resulted in significant eye damage.
