{"id":16919,"date":"2021-11-28T09:08:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=16919"},"modified":"2021-11-28T09:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T22:08:39","slug":"massive-anti-government-protests-in-about-35-cities-in-australia-go-unmentioned-by-western-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/massive-anti-government-protests-in-about-35-cities-in-australia-go-unmentioned-by-western-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Anti-Government Protests in about 35 Cities in Australia go Unmentioned by Western Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eutimes.net\/author\/admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EU Times<\/a> on Nov 27th, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fresh round of rallies against mandatory Covid vaccination has hit Australia, with hundreds of thousands protesting in dozens of cities. Aerial footage captured huge crowds blocking central streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New rallies all across the country happened on Saturday, as people demonstrated for more freedom in relation to coronavirus vaccination. Organized by the Millions March Against Mandatory Vaccination group, massive protests swept central Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth, along with 30 other cities and towns in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claiming that vaccine mandates are discriminatory, people protested outside parliamentary buildings and blocked central streets, calling for resignations in state governments and an end to what some call \u201ctyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No official numbers have been published regarding attendances, but various media outlets reported that \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d took to the streets this weekend. Aerial footage showed cities flooded with sizable crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protest against government restrictions and mandates underway in Sydney, Australia.<br><br>Protests are underway all across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EcYSuqly52\">pic.twitter.com\/EcYSuqly52<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMarieOakes\/status\/1464433262777016323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sydney, people of all ages gathered in Hyde Park, carrying banners that read \u201cNever lock down again,\u201d and \u201cLess government, more freedom.\u201d In Melbourne, people protested outside the state parliament and blocked Spring Street while chanting \u201cSack [Premier of Victoria] Dan Andrews,\u201d in an apparent expression of anger over his controversial pandemic powers legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Gold Coast, protesters largely supported the leader of Australia\u2019s right-wing One Nation party, Pauline Hanson. The senator, who has been trying to push a bill against mandatory vaccination policies, addressed the crowds, saying she had spoken with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and told him to change the constitution to facilitate her proposed legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the rallies were reportedly loud, with people cheering, beating drums and beeping horns, they were largely peaceful. In New South Wales, Health Minister Brad Hazzard officially allowed unvaccinated protesters to attend the Sydney rally, only asking they wear a mask and stay away if feeling unwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/541490-australia-massive-protests-mandates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by EU Times on Nov 27th, 2021 A fresh round of rallies against mandatory Covid vaccination has hit Australia, with hundreds of thousands protesting in dozens of cities. Aerial footage captured huge crowds blocking central streets. New rallies all across the country happened on Saturday, as people demonstrated for more freedom in relation to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/massive-anti-government-protests-in-about-35-cities-in-australia-go-unmentioned-by-western-media\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Massive Anti-Government Protests in about 35 Cities in Australia go Unmentioned by Western Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,198,97,151,214,769,27,8],"tags":[28,38,4265,1006,556,132,111,94,2469,612,674,1787,175,3670,1116,559,1455,63,270,10,4842,45,237,1272,4521,43,1104,1725,414,931,42,29,3421,3145,271,11],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/massive-anti-government2.jpg?fit=640%2C364&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16921,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919\/revisions\/16921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}