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Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
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One of the largest protests in Australian history. Entire Harbour Bridge covered in people.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Not an expert either but I’ve been to rallies with a conservative estimate of 30k and this was easily several times larger from only what I could see.

The police actually asked people to stay put and await further instructions. Apparently their plan was to stagger the crowd back. But one people couldn’t progress north any further every one just turned back anyway. It was all quite orderly, thankfully.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But one people couldn’t progress north any further every one just turned back anyway.

    My experience on the ground was that it seemed people at the very north end of the march actually were told by police to start going back - or at least given a message that could be interpreted that way. Nobody at my part of the march started moving south again until people started coming back from the north end saying that we'd been told to go back. I could be wrong about all this, but if there's any truth to that interpretation of events then we might hear more about it in the next few days.

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