Sydney Harbour Bridge reopens after 90,000 march in pro-Palestinian rally — as it happened
www.abc.net.au
Protesters in Sydney and Melbourne have marched in support of Palestinians in Gaza, with the Sydney Harbour Bridge closed to traffic as an estimated 100,000 people walked across.

The rally in Melbourne hasn’t gotten much coverage because of Sydney, but it is mentioned here. They claim 3000 attended but that’s way off, it was easily 25-40,000 (some estimates I’ve seen go as high as 50k). The march stretched down most of Bourke St and I couldn’t see the start or end of it.

300k was the organiser estimate for Sydney which is about 5-6% of the city.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    22 days ago

    That’s shockingly good reporting from 9. Acknowledging the excessive show of force from the police, and the difference between them being militarised and the anti-genocide protestors being old men and women with scarves. And not even as an afterthought, but as a really good chunk of the story.