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In Australia there is a culture of silence surrounding injustices done to individuals by police and the courts. Yesterday, the 2nd December, while the government of Socialist Left premier Daniel Andrews accrues more and more power, one woman in Victoria's state parliament spoke up against physical abuse of one man by an arrogant normally unaccountable police force. I was present when the man (who wishes to remain anonymous) was dragged out of his bed in the early morning on December 1st at a round the clock protest against legislation passed the next day which concentrates power to call lockdowns in...

(Museums Victoria) In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay. He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold nugget inside the rock – after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields region, where the Australian gold rush peaked in the 19th century. To break open his find, Hole tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill, even dousing the thing in acid. However,...

Last weekend saw very large demonstrations held all across Australia in protest at the totalitarian and illegal mandates being imposed by state governments and unelected bureaucrats under the convenient and seemingly never ending umbrella related to the pretend pandemic. The protests were held in all major cities but also in regional centers and in small towns. Without a doubt the largest protest was held in Melbourne where the crowd numbered in the hundreds of thousands. This was a collective reaction to the particularly severe restrictions imposed by the Andrews’ government which seems hell bent on imposing Communism on Australia all...

Newspaper cartoonist Michael Leunig has been axed from his prized position in The Age over an image comparing resistance to mandatory vaccination to the fight for democracy in Tiananmen Square.In an image posted to his Instagram account, Leunig — whose career has spanned five decades — drew a lone protester standing in front of a loaded syringe, mimicking the iconic “tank man” image of protest in China. An inset of the 1989 photo also appears in Leunig’s drawing.The image was posted at the end of September and never made it to print in The Age, and speculation about Leunig’s job...

"I've been an emergency nurse and I've been working for 33 years...now my hospital is telling me that I need to be vaccinated to be able to work...but to coerce people into having the vaccination that is wrong" A nurse speaks out Friday 10/22/2021 first day that police refrained from breaking up public protests in Melbourne, Australia. The State of Victoria and Melbourne moving into a new phase with a lockdown modified to a "lockout of the unvaccinated" as stated by Premier Daniel Andrews. Protesters were able on Friday to make themselves visible without police interference. The lockdown was justification...

Residents of Melbourne, Australia just gained a little bit of freedom back after enduring the longest Covid lockdown of any city in the world: 262 days, edging out London and Buenos Aires for the dubious title. According to Anthony Piovesan and Matt Young of the Murdoch empire’s news.com.au:Melbourne has erupted with cheers as the world’s longest lockdown was officially lifted overnight.Victoria’s sixth coronavirus lockdown was finally lifted at 11.59pm on Thursday after 262 days of harsh Covid-19 measures since the pandemic hit.The CBD erupted and cheers and applause could be heard echoing through the city as the clock struck midnight,...

Prepare to be confined to your home again. Prepare to be prevented from working and put on a state dole. Prepare to have your education trashed. Prepare to be banned from travelling and required to show wads of paper or permit intrusive apps to be installed on your phone. I can't say when this will be. But after last week's parliamentary report on the Covid panic, you may be sure it will happen. Next time it may well not be Covid. But that does not matter. A terrifying principle has been established, that shutting down society is a wise and...

Australians took to the streets for another protest in Melbourne in the state of Victoria on Saturday after the government announced a sweeping COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all “authorised workers.” Victorian residents took to the streets and congregated in a group that marched along Southbank Boulevard and the track around Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. Participants carried a large white banner with the word “Freedom” and voiced their dissent against vaccine mandates, lockdowns, and the current state government. A video from citizen journalist Rukshan Fernando showed the protesters marching peacefully and yelling slogans such as “my body my choice” and “freedom!...

The Australian city of Melbourne has seen a record spike of COVID-19 cases despite a strict lockdown that has been in place for nearly two months, Reuters reported. Authorities reported 1,483 new infections on Thursday, a 50 percent jump from Wednesday’s total of 950 new cases. Authorities said the new rise of new could be linked to various home parties stemming from an Australian Football match last weekend, according to Reuters.

Melbourne’s Health Minister Martin Foley:” Of the people who were in hospital yesterday, 78% were vaccinated and 17 % were partially vaccinated.” https://vidmax.com/video/207662-melbourne-s-health-minister-martin-foley-drops-bombshell-85-of-those-in-hospital-are-vaccinated

Revolt grows after unruly protests. The Police Commissioner of New South Wales has refused to enforce the state’s vaccine passport mandate, revealing that officers will not be checking people’s vaccination status in restaurants, clubs or bars. The government is preparing to pass a mandate that will ban all unvaccinated people from gaining entry to numerous venues up until at least December 1st in a repeat of the segregation scheme that has been adopted in numerous western countries. However, after questions began to swirl about whether businesses would be forced to impose the measures on customers, NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller...

While speaking about the vaccination rates in New South Wales, Australian chief health officer Kerry Chant expressed optimism that they’d soon reach a 90 percent vaccination rate for the 16 and over population. Even still, however, she quickly poured cold water on the idea of life returning to normal ever again. "We will not be going back to pre-COVID levels. We are always going to have to be mindful that COVID exists," she said. "We're going to have to engage with booster shots, we're going to have to engage with advice from time to time when we see outbreaks. We're...

Melbourne Australia Latest News The latest from Melbourne Australia where its mid-day Monday is that a group of health care workers protested the vaccine mandate with a silent vigil at Edinburgh Gardens and there were plenty of police on hand. The protest is now over. 94 people were arrested on the beach and park areas of St. Kilda Saturday as they protested against vaccine coercion in the State of Victoria. On Sunday and Monday people asked to meet in local parks picnicking and organizing into local groups widely dispersed across the Greater Melbourne Area. The gradual buildup of protests said...

Melbourne Police Officer Grabs Young Woman By The Throat For Not Wearing A Mask. *******WARNING: VIDEO IS DISTURBING TO WATCH*********

The birthplace of Australian Rules football is Melbourne. Yesterday the Norm Smith curse was broken when Melbourne football club its first premiership in 57 years. The Grand Final was against another Melbourne based team, The Western Bulldogs. But the grand final was held on the other side of the country in Perth because of the world's longest lockdowns in Melbourne. In the thirdv uarter, the Bulldogs were three goals ahead, then Melbourne kicked 16 of the last 17 goals to win. It was one of the most emphatic victories in the club's history but Melbourne supporters in Melbourne are imprisoned...

<p>Construction sites in and around Melbourne, Australia, have been shut down for two weeks after hundreds of construction workers and other protestors gathered Monday at the site of a union building, throwing bottles and damaging equipment.</p><p>They were protesting the Victorian government's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for construction workers that begins Thursday.</p>

Recent anti-lockdown demonstrations in Melbourne have been met with an array of colourful accusations from authority figures in the state of Victoria, including labels such as “anti-vaxxers,” “conspiracy theorists,” “far-right extremists,” and “man-baby Nazis.” The labels draw parallels with Hillary Clinton’s notorious 2016 remark that supporters of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump were “deplorables.” The Melbourne protests, primarily involving blue-collar members of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU), has sent shivers down the spines of union leaders and Victoria’s state Premier Dan Andrews, who are beginning to see signs of an emerging alliance between unionised workers and...

Construction workers irate at mandatory vaccination, shut down of their industry.. Orange vest construction workers marched for a third day in Melbourne, Australia against mandatory vaccination rules, with one video showing a protester profusely bleeding after police cracked his skull. After authorities shut down the construction industry in Melbourne for two weeks in an effort to force workers to get vaccinated, anger only escalated, with the orange vests seen engaged in numerous clashes with police. The demonstrations continued for a third day, with numerous clips illustrating how irate the mandatory vaccine rule has made the workers as well as the...

Crackdown underway mass arrests in Melbourne details later in post... Its now Wednesday morning in Melbourne Australia with the Victoria Supreme Court's 10 am hearing. The hearing is the appeal of Monica Smit... Breaking Update: A 6.0 magnitude earthquake some 40 minutes ago felt in northeastern Victoria, New South Wales and... Police Out In Force Swooping Down On Protesters And Making Arrests....

I felt the earth move under my feet. Probably quite small in world terms but these things don't normally happen here - Australia is very geologically inactive.