Greg Piper says one of his staffers told him about the protest and his request to move it away from the building was rejected
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The New South Wales speaker says he knew about Saturday’s neo-Nazi rally outside parliament the day before it took place, but was told his request to relocate the protest from the front of the building was not possible.
Greg Piper, the house speaker in NSW’s Legislative Assembly, told Guardian Australia a member of his staff advised him about the planned rally late on Friday afternoon.