{"id":561959,"date":"2026-03-24T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561959\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:53:14","slug":"man-charged-for-allegedly-smashing-nsw-parliament-house-window-with-barbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561959\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged for allegedly smashing NSW Parliament House window with barbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after allegedly smashing a NSW Parliament House window with a metal barbell in the early hours of \ufeffthis morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the 37-year-old caused the damage after entering the main forecourt on Sydney&#8217;s Macquarie Street about 2.40am. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>A crime scene was established and an investigation begun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e06a8bd8-bfae-4177-a4e3-144338ba647d.jpeg\"   alt=\"A NSW Parliament House window was smashed with a metal barbell early &#xFEFF;this morning.\"\/>A NSW Parliament House window was smashed with a metal barbell early \ufeffthis morning. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>Over two hours later, police \ufeffarrested the man about 40 kilometres away at a home on Oldfield Street in Greystanes.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Granville Police Station, where he was charged with destroying or damaging property and entering inclosed land without a lawful excuse.<\/p>\n<p>He was refused police bail and will face Parramatta Local Court today.<\/p>\n<p>A traditional barbell weighs about 20kg. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after allegedly smashing a NSW Parliament House window with a metal barbell in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-561959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}