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SBS Australia
21 minutes ago
- SBS Australia
'This is our bridge': Pro-Palestinian march takes over iconic Sydney landmark, in pictures
A sea of people filled the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday — drawing attention to the conditions in Gaza. The protests occurred following days of controversy. On Sunday, the city's iconic bridge was closed for over 5 hours so protesters could rally on it. The protest organiser have said on their social media "hundreds of thousands" attended the rally. The Harbour Bridge was closed in both directions from 11.30am to 5pm. Source: SBS News / Jack Giam While crossing the Harbour Bridge, the protest organiser from the Palestine Action Group, Josh Lees told SBS News: "We've been told the protest is so big by the police that we are not going to be able to stop where we were planning ... We are gonna have to march back over the bridge again, which is good. Because this is our bridge, this bridge belongs to the people of Sydney." Protesters walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney. Source: AAP / Dean Lewins NSW Police acting assistant commissioner Adam Johnson said the police's current estimate was that around 90,000 people had attended the event. During the rally, NSW Police released a statement asking protesters to stop walking across the bridge for safety reasons. Source: SBS News / Jack Giam Craig Foster, former Australian of the Year and retired football player, was also among the speakers at the Sydney rally. Assange has rarely been seen in public since his release from a UK prison in June. Source: Getty / Lisa Maree Williams Political figures such as Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi, federal Labor MP Ed Husic and former Labor minister Bob Carr also attended the protest. In her speech at the protest, Faruqi criticised NSW Premier Chris Minns, who had said his government could not support a protest of this scale taking place, especially at short notice. UNICEF reports that "severe malnutrition" among children in Gaza is increasing faster than aid can arrive, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health data. Source: SBS News / Jack Giam Hours after the march started, NSW Police issued various statements urging the protesters to "stop walking north", citing "safety issues". Geo-targeting alerts were sent to the people in the area. During the rally, NSW Police told participants to stop proceeding across the bridge to "avoid a crowd crush at the northern end of the harbour bridge". Source: Getty / Izhar Khan In a press conference after the rally, NSW Police acting deputy commissioner Peter McKenna, said most Sydney marchers were "very well behaved" but added that at certain points police "were really concerned about a crowd crush". "But gee whizz, I wouldn't like to try and do this every Sunday at that short notice," he added. NSW Police's different geo-targeted alerts during the protests have been taken as a sign of the huge number of people who attended the protest by Josh Lees, the protest organiser from the Palestine Action Grou Source: SBS News / Jack Giam Protesters also gathered at the State Library in Melbourne to rally in solidarity with the protesters in Sydney, planning to march down to the King Street Bridge. Protesters also gathered at the State Library in Melbourne. Source: AAP / Con Chronis One protester faced off with riot police, repeatedly yelling "shame on you" at them. Source: AAP / Con Chronis However, they had to leave the King Street bridge, which police had blockaded in advance of their arrival.
Sydney Morning Herald
36 minutes ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
Despite worst fears and weather, this was the day Sydney took a stand for humanity
Despite the worst fears of NSW Police and Premier Chris Minns, Sunday's pro-Palestine protest on the Harbour Bridge will be remembered as the day Sydney turned out en masse to plead for humanity. Protesting against a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has entered the mainstream. There is no other way to explain the reported 90,000 people who braved horrendous wet weather to walk – or, for a large part, stand – to demand an end to a worsening famine in the occupied territory. No one should suggest that the city had turned its back on our Jewish community. Rather, many ordinary Sydneysiders felt strongly enough about the crisis in Gaza that they saw it necessary to join the masses and cross the city's most iconic landmark. Undoubtedly, there would have been bad-faith actors who joined the massive crowd. Equally, the Palestine Action Group, led by serial protester Josh Lees, cannot take all the credit for luring tens of thousands of people into the city, although it could not have happened without them. But the weekly PAG protests through the CBD, which Minns has previously said were a 'huge drain on the public purse' and that police should have the power to shut down, morphed into a show of mass solidarity against the deteriorating disaster in Gaza. Minns did (and will continue to) maintain that despite his earlier comments, which have been viewed by some of his own Labor MPs as anti-protest, he was worried only about the safety of the thousands of people who would descend on the city. He stressed, belatedly, that he was not against people protesting. But he was against shutting down the 'central artery' of Sydney. He stamped his foot and said it could not happen, the police echoing his protestations. Loading The NSW Police Commissioner asked the Supreme Court for a prohibition order to block PAG's application to protest on the bridge. At that stage, 10,000 people were expected to turn up. The police were unsuccessful.
The Age
36 minutes ago
- The Age
Despite worst fears and weather, this was the day Sydney took a stand for humanity
Despite the worst fears of NSW Police and Premier Chris Minns, Sunday's pro-Palestine protest on the Harbour Bridge will be remembered as the day Sydney turned out en masse to plead for humanity. Protesting against a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has entered the mainstream. There is no other way to explain the reported 90,000 people who braved horrendous wet weather to walk – or, for a large part, stand – to demand an end to a worsening famine in the occupied territory. No one should suggest that the city had turned its back on our Jewish community. Rather, many ordinary Sydneysiders felt strongly enough about the crisis in Gaza that they saw it necessary to join the masses and cross the city's most iconic landmark. Undoubtedly, there would have been bad-faith actors who joined the massive crowd. Equally, the Palestine Action Group, led by serial protester Josh Lees, cannot take all the credit for luring tens of thousands of people into the city, although it could not have happened without them. But the weekly PAG protests through the CBD, which Minns has previously said were a 'huge drain on the public purse' and that police should have the power to shut down, morphed into a show of mass solidarity against the deteriorating disaster in Gaza. Minns did (and will continue to) maintain that despite his earlier comments, which have been viewed by some of his own Labor MPs as anti-protest, he was worried only about the safety of the thousands of people who would descend on the city. He stressed, belatedly, that he was not against people protesting. But he was against shutting down the 'central artery' of Sydney. He stamped his foot and said it could not happen, the police echoing his protestations. Loading The NSW Police Commissioner asked the Supreme Court for a prohibition order to block PAG's application to protest on the bridge. At that stage, 10,000 people were expected to turn up. The police were unsuccessful.
