Police at the anti-immigration rally have just told the crowd not to move north for their own safety, to jeers from the crowd, who had massed at the barrier.
Meanwhile, a nicely dressed middle-aged couple have tried to get through the police barrier, saying: “We’re just trying to get to a restaurant.” They were directed away again.
Protesters at the March for Australia outside Flinders Street Station on Sunday.Credit: Penny Stephens
The anti-immigration rally is one of the strangest I’ve ever attended. There were no speeches, no apparent plan, and a great deal of puzzlement.
Protesters had planned to march south towards the Shrine of Remembrance, but police have not allowed them to move in that direction.
“I don’t know what the plan is, or who’s in charge,” one woman told me. “Or even if anyone is in charge”.
So, after milling about for an hour or so, we now seem to be heading west down Flinders Street towards Spencer Street.
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