Yes, they should have. And I think at this point, the people in charge regret the choices they made the other day - for political reasons, if for no others, as they are being savaged for it across Australia.
The article isn’t BS - what happened the other night was. That was an anomaly that never should have happened.
Remember, the reason Hamas rallied on the steps of the Opera House is because the Opera House was being lit with the colours of the Israeli flag. That shows what the official Australian position was. The idiots who told Jews to stay home and who treated that rally as if it was some planned ‘peaceful protest’ were acting against that.
It was disgusting but it was an aberration.
Anomaly? There have been vicious fights between your Middle Eastern immigrants & the locals for years on end in your nation.
Until and unless they pursue and arrest those responsible for the rally, the article remains a feces-filled apologia - it’s up there with “I’m not racist, I have lots of black friends!”