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Public rally in Launceston, against the Federal Labor Government's new 'policy' to send asylum seekers to PNG. Some photos.

(I didn't catch some of the names of the speakers. Hopefully someone else can help out there.)



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Launceston's City Park

Parliament House is undergoing some building work, so Parliament is sitting up north, in the Albert Hall, which is on the edge of the City Park.

You might notice the placards & banners are targeted at politicians more so than usual (or maybe not from these photos, they tended to be smaller signs).



( In the park )
( In the street )
( In the square )

There was a anti-pulp mill rally today, up at Low Head. This at the mouth of the Tamar, just north of George Town, in the vicinity of Long Reach, the site of the mill. I thought this was near Bell Bay, the industrial area just south of George Town, but it's further south, near the turn off to the Batman Bridge.

I'll put photos of the area in the next post.

It's about a 40 minute drive from Launceston. Then we had a 30 min walk from where we had to park to the site of the rally. When we got there, Bob Brown was speaking. He was the last speaker, other than one of the organisers.
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Took some photos at the Industrial Relations protest march today. Of course it was a sunny day, even warm sunny, and the shadows in the city streets were dark, so the outside ones are mostly not usable.




and the Albert Hall is too big for the little flash on the camera. But I got some non-flash ones, which are particularly good for crowd scenes.

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