QLD's Ageing White Shoe Brigade Praises NSW Premier For Giving Filthy Protestors The Sir Joh Treatment

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More protests are expected in Sydney's CBD tonight, after NSW Police stand accused of the heavy-handed tactics after arresting 27 demonstrators and brutalising many more during violent clashes outside Town Hall last night.

Both NSW Premier Chris Minns and the public order squad are being criticised for their 'over the top' approach to dealing with their own citizens who had turned out to protest against the visiting Israeli Prime Minister, Isaac Herzog.

Criticism of the way NSW Police handled the rally, including accusations from the NSW Council for Civil Liberties of unprovoked violence against protesters, have now grown into a national scandal.

Meanwhile, the Premier Minns is attempting to brush off accusations that he is trying to criminalise protesting in New South Wales.

Critics includ Minns's own Labor MP, Sarah Kaine, who defied the premier by attending the rally, and later described police actions as overzealous and unnecessary.

Minns insisted the situation would have spiralled further without the police response, and has returned fire at his own backbencher.

"No. She's wrong. I'm not going to throw police under the bus this morning," he said.

However, despite the chorus of criticisms towards Minns and the NSW police, there are also vocal supporters.

And to show just how bizarre the political landscape has become, the majority of those backing Minns are high profile conservative figures.

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott was one of the first public figures who leapt to the defence of NSW Police, congratulating the officers and the Labor State Government on 'dealing with those ratbags'

Elsewhere, in the balcony of a high-end Gold Coast restaurant, the consortium of property developers and National Party lobbyists who dominated Queensland politics in the 1980s are also lathering high praise on the NSW Labor Premier.

"Terrific stuff" said Murphy Lewis (83) a prominent member of the sinister Queensland White Shoe Brigade, who helped the Sir Joh Government usher in a new era of extreme political corruption and police brutality before the Fitzgerald Inquiry.

"There's only one way to deal with protestors" said another old silver-haired billionaire crook.

"Give em the baton and a night in the slammer. That's how we dealt with those people who kept embarrassing us by protesting apartheid during the Springboks tour"

"Shame ya can't just knock 'em off anymore"