If there is a fine line between law and order and chaos, there is an even finer line between what the police can and cannot do.

And if we have learnt anything from the fallout from Saturday’s police-sanctioned neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament , it is the size of the chasm between those who make laws and those who enforce them.

Neither NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon nor Premier Chris Minns were notified of Saturday’s protest beforehand. Credit: Flavio Brancaleone

Into that gulf have fallen questions about how the police can act and when, what protections can be offered by the laws touted to keep members of the public safe from vile vilification, and how unsafe the community must feel before authorities are able to intervene.

As time stretches on and those unanswered quest

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