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Australian lockdown protest9/6/2023 Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination activists gathered in cities across Australia with New South Wales and Victoria are under. Stay-at-home orders will now remain in place across the city until the end of September and residents in virus hotspots will also be subject to a night-time curfew and limited to one hour of outdoor exercise a day. Protesters march down George St on Jin Sydney, Australia. In a bid to further quash any potential freedom protests, NSW Police also prohibited taxi, rideshare and passenger services from transporting passengers to the Sydney CBD between 9am and 3pm today.Īuthorities were particularly concerned protesters would be motivated by the NSW Government's introduction of new restrictions on Friday. "If you're in a non-hotspot LGA, the last thing you want is people coming to this rally tomorrow and taking back to your LGA the same level of infection that we've got tragically in the 12 that are considered hotspots right now." You'll also be endangering the lives of your loved ones and of course prolonging this lockdown," Elliott said. "Anybody who attends the protest tomorrow is going to be facing the full force of the NSW Police Force. Police Minister David Elliott said officers were ready to impose strong penalties on anyone caught participating. The noon protest was organised by the same group behind a July protest which resulted in 350 fines and 60 people charged, as well as shocking footage of wild unrest on the streets of Melbourne and Sydney. Police also issued a number of public safety orders against key "agitators" to restrict their ability to participate. The Sydney Morning Herald reports one admin of a 2500-member anti-vax group on encrypted app Telegram saying: "The police will clamp down harder this time, but that is fine because we will still heavily outnumber them and have many brave warriors on our side ready to stand up and Fight for Freedom." In central Sydney, those planning on attending a planned anti-lockdown rally from midday would be met with a "zero tolerance" force of 1400 ready to dish out fines and make arrests for breach of public health orders, NSW Police said earlier.Ī large contingent of officers were stationed across the city's major roads to intercept people on their way to the protest, as key organisers in online groups shared plans to evade police and continue with the illegal gathering.
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