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That's a real worryVictoria where life's fun and gay
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JohnDe
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Another nice day in the police state of Victoria, with people taking the day off work to protest. They do have jobs, right?
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The Prime Minister is now calling for calm. Several months late.
PM calls for calm as protesters hurl horse manure, rocks, while cops deploy tear gas amid ‘loud explosions’
Projectiles were thrown at police who responded with pepper spray and rubber bullets as anti-war protesters targeted a defence expo. The PM called for cool heads while Peter Dutton accused protesters of dishonouring ‘the sacrifice of Anzacs’.
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And how quick.
The current action by Victorian government and police has been a slow burn while protestors damaged property and threatened people during the last few months.
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Which group pays for the carbon emissions and pollution?
Protesters surround the Melbourne Convention centre in an attempt to close down The Land Forces 2024 International Land Defence Exposition. Picture: David Crosling
Members of Disrupt Land Forces, Socialist Alternative, Students for Palestine, Victorian Socialists and Extinction Rebellion are among those who have taken to the streets and have co-ordinated details for the demonstration on social media.
Protesters surround the Melbourne Convention centre in an attempt to close down The Land Forces 2024 International Land Defence Exposition. Picture: David Crosling
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They truly are demented.
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Anti-war activists set fire to bins as police close in. Picture: Jake Nowakowski
Isn't extinction rebellion (a climate activist group) part of it?
Perhaps they pre bought carbon credits.
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Hypocrites’: Police chief slams protesters after acid attack, rubbishes Greens concerns
Victorian police commissioner Shane Patton said the anti-war protesters outside the Land Force Expo in Melbourne were “a bunch of hypocrites” after police were assaulted and had acid thrown at them.
And Commissioner Patton labelled claims by the Victorian Greens of police heavy-handedness at the protest as “rubbish”.
Victorian police commissioner Shane Patton said the anti-war protesters outside the Land Force Expo in Melbourne were “a bunch of hypocrites” after police were assaulted and had acid thrown at them.
And Commissioner Patton labelled claims by the Victorian Greens of police heavy-handedness at the protest as “rubbish”.
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And one of the Greens turned up at the protest rather than being in Parliament which was sitting.
She talked on the radio about the protesters being like Martin Luther King and how violent the police were.
You should have heard the disgust in the voice from the ABC interviewer on Radio National when she said that.
He said " I don't remember Martin Luther King protestors throwing acid on police officers faces."
The Greens have behaved atrociously on this for attempted political gain. Scum.
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Victoria gay and fun one day .... violent the next no wonder Queenslanders complain when they don't go home.
Sorry couldn't resist no reflection on the Vic residence here
I am a chip on the shoulder WA- en never forgiven the shirt front on Barry Cable....
Sorry couldn't resist no reflection on the Vic residence here
I am a chip on the shoulder WA- en never forgiven the shirt front on Barry Cable....
IFocus
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Victoria gay and fun one day .... violent the next no wonder Queenslanders complain when they don't go home.
Sorry couldn't resist no reflection on the Vic residence here
I am a chip on the shoulder WA- en never forgiven the shirt front on Barry Cable....
Its unfortunate that Cable has had allegations of historical sex crimes..... Mathews was actually always right to do so
Saw the footage on the box tonight felt sorry for the poor coppers.
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In the UK, two tier policing is super obvious and in your face. Here in Oz, it's actually just as obvious, but less talked about.
It wasn't so long ago that Victorian police fired upon protesters with rubber bullet, choked out 50kg teenagers and knocked over and pepper sprayed 70yo grannies, inter alia.
Despite the odd arrest, these imbeciles have been treat with kids gloves.
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Are they in any way related to the old Socialist Alliance aka S11 or M1?
If so they've been around a long time. They were somewhat of a nuisance in Hobart 30 years ago.
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Sometimes protest rallies do have a point, but there's a difference between peaceful protest for a cause versus protest as a career.
Once it becomes "another day, another protest" it loses impact, since most just stop paying attention once they realise it's an endless campaign against pretty much everything.
Complaining against one development due to environmental impact or complaining against one foreign policy on the basis of a reasoned argument about how it could be done better is something most will listen to and consider on merit. But once it becomes an entirely predictable objection to any development anywhere, or it's an objection to every policy the government has, that's when the whole thing loses credibility.
Once something goes down that track it rarely recovers. Plenty of examples of that with everything from development to unions to trends in music and fashion. Once it goes to an extreme it tends to eat itself as those with an open mind see it as having lost credibility.
Once it becomes "another day, another protest" it loses impact, since most just stop paying attention once they realise it's an endless campaign against pretty much everything.
Complaining against one development due to environmental impact or complaining against one foreign policy on the basis of a reasoned argument about how it could be done better is something most will listen to and consider on merit. But once it becomes an entirely predictable objection to any development anywhere, or it's an objection to every policy the government has, that's when the whole thing loses credibility.
Once something goes down that track it rarely recovers. Plenty of examples of that with everything from development to unions to trends in music and fashion. Once it goes to an extreme it tends to eat itself as those with an open mind see it as having lost credibility.
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And another -
Greens senator David Shoebridge listens to protesters outside the Land Forces 2024 arms fair in Melbourne.
Police Association secretary Wayne Gatt has blasted Greens Senator David Shoebridge over the MP’s support for protesters at the Land Forces weapons expo in Melbourne.
“It’s an easy position for him to take, one of ideology,” Mr Gatt said.
Mr Gatt said Senator Shoebridge had drawn his conclusions when he was in another part of Australia and had not spoken to police who were faced with the violence.
“It’s quite a different scenario when you are on a thin blue line,” he said.
