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Australian Black Lives Matter protests: tens of thousands demand end to Indigenous deaths in custody
"Scott Morrison compares Black Lives Matter protests to Anzac Day, urges Australians to show 'respect' and not attend"
Mask-clad crowds defied pleas from the prime minister and state leaders for people to stay home
Luke Henriques-Gomes and Elias Visontay
Sun 7 Jun 2020 11.58 AEST
First published on Sat 6 Jun 2020 18.53 AEST
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He also said the incident at Central was not representative of the wider protest, and said he believed “there are groups that attend those types of protests with an interest to incite police and try to cause violence” and to “pursue interests that are contrary to the rest of the protest group”.
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In Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and smaller cities and towns across the country mask-clad protesters gathered, drawing attention to racial profiling, police brutality and the more than 400 Indigenous people who have died in police custody .. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/06/aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-434-have-died-since-1991-new-data-shows .. since a royal commission into the problem was held in 1991.
[Insert: With not one police officer charged. Thanks to some brave Americans that's one score on which Australia sadly lags the U.S.A.
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“All we want is justice and to be treated as equals,” he said. “It’s not much to ask for is it? There is no room for racists in this world. We need change and it needs to start happening now.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/06/australian-black-lives-matter-protests-tens-of-thousands-demand-end-to-indigenous-deaths-in-custody
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To that Saturday that was
Eyes to the sky, Sydney and Melbourne: Saturday will bring a strawberry moon
Image: Dylan Sauerwein/Unsplash
By Brittany Jenke
Jun 04, 2020
Let the sky be your Saturday night entertainment, Sydney and Melbourne,
as you’ll be treated to both a partial lunar eclipse and a ‘strawberry’ moon.
https://thebrag.com/sydney-melbourne-saturday-strawberry-moon/
"Scott Morrison compares Black Lives Matter protests to Anzac Day, urges Australians to show 'respect' and not attend"
Mask-clad crowds defied pleas from the prime minister and state leaders for people to stay home
Luke Henriques-Gomes and Elias Visontay
Sun 7 Jun 2020 11.58 AEST
First published on Sat 6 Jun 2020 18.53 AEST
[...]
He also said the incident at Central was not representative of the wider protest, and said he believed “there are groups that attend those types of protests with an interest to incite police and try to cause violence” and to “pursue interests that are contrary to the rest of the protest group”.
[...]
In Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and smaller cities and towns across the country mask-clad protesters gathered, drawing attention to racial profiling, police brutality and the more than 400 Indigenous people who have died in police custody .. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/06/aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-434-have-died-since-1991-new-data-shows .. since a royal commission into the problem was held in 1991.
[Insert: With not one police officer charged. Thanks to some brave Americans that's one score on which Australia sadly lags the U.S.A.
[...]
“All we want is justice and to be treated as equals,” he said. “It’s not much to ask for is it? There is no room for racists in this world. We need change and it needs to start happening now.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/06/australian-black-lives-matter-protests-tens-of-thousands-demand-end-to-indigenous-deaths-in-custody
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To that Saturday that was
Eyes to the sky, Sydney and Melbourne: Saturday will bring a strawberry moon
Image: Dylan Sauerwein/Unsplash
By Brittany Jenke
Jun 04, 2020
Let the sky be your Saturday night entertainment, Sydney and Melbourne,
as you’ll be treated to both a partial lunar eclipse and a ‘strawberry’ moon.
https://thebrag.com/sydney-melbourne-saturday-strawberry-moon/
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