Immediately after the rally outside parliament earlier this month, Minns said: “if we had our time again, that rally wouldn’t have taken place.”
Police said a communication error was to blame for the premier and Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon being left in the dark.
On, Wednesday Minns said the pathway to reform was “not straightforward”.
“The reason we’re sending it to a committee is so that we can seek and gather information from constitutional experts at universities and in the law, and we make sure that we get it right,” he said.
Asked if the government would look to prevent future protests, Minns said stopping neo-Nazi rallies was the purpose of the bill, which would give police the ability to make arrests regardless of whether a protest is authorised. The new laws would not directly stop neo-Nazis from protesting, but would give police more options to charge them for expressing Nazi ideology.
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The government isn’t considering any changes to electoral law to prevent White Australia from registering as a political party, Special Minister of State John Graham confirmed on Wednesday.
Graham said the commissioner does have the power to reject a party if its name is offensive, which “could easily come into play” with White Australia. He said regulating parties based on their policies was “very difficult”.
The government will also seek to remove a sunset clause on the offence of inciting racial hatred, an amendment that was supported by the opposition and the Greens, which is set to expire after three years.
The government was left scrambling to contain the fallout from the National Socialist Network’s neo-Nazi display outside the parliament, which the premier, police minister and police commissioner said they were all unaware of.