Matilda Lane-Rose was one of several people placed on an exclusion list by WA Police barring them from entering the area around the Perth Exhibition and Convention Centre where the defence expo is being held this week. Others on the list include Rising Tide and Disrupt Burrup Hub activist Will Shanahan.
The Human Rights Law Centre and SCALES Community Legal Centre took Lane-Rose's exclusion to the Supreme Court over the weekend, prompting WA Police to allow her to enter the security zone on Tuesday. She will remain on the excluded list and intends to pursue the ban in the Supreme Court, with proceedings scheduled for next week.
"My name is still on this list, so that is why I will be continuing to pursue my case in the Supreme Court of WA to challenge the decision that landed me on this list in the first place," Lane-Rose said. She said she intended to help her boss, Greens MP Sophie McNeill, create content outside the expo on Tuesday.
On Friday, WA Police Minister Reece Whitby said the bar had been set "very high to be an excluded person, and for very good reason." He added: "We don't want to see violence. We don't want to see people at risk, and that is the basis on which people are being excluded."
A police spokeswoman would not address Lane-Rose's matter directly but said where a complaint is received about a ban, police would work with the complainant.