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Photos from "Rally & Walk for the Right to Seek Asylum" on Saturday. I did manage to make some notes about the speakers' name but mostly I didn't catch them, even though I was listening for them.

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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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Royal Park

May. 14th, 2011 03:51 pm
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Some photos from rally today. Feeling grumpy so I'm not inclined to put words on them, but I think the focus of the rally is fairly obvious.

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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).



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In the street )
In the square )
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Rally in Rain


The focus of the rally was next week's Federal election:

Vote against the pulp mill!

Don't get discouraged by the election results, because we will continue to fight!

Despite the rain, which set in quite hard but we are not going to complain about rain in mid-November, there was a good turn out. ABC says the police estimated it as 10-12,000; news.com.au got a bit more enthusiastic with 15,000. So it's a bit more than 'good'. Possibly it's the biggest rally I've been too. The big peace march, part of the coordinated international marches a few years back, drew 10,000 in Hobart. 15,000 is close to the capacity of the (AFL) Aurora Stadium in Launceston.

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Leaving Franklin Sq

The rain stopped before the march started. (That's Edward, "Reg et Imp")

Come on a walk around the middle of Hobart )

Rally

Oct. 7th, 2007 08:02 pm
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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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10,000 in pulp mill protest

"A massive crowd turned out in Launceston yesterday to rally against Gunns Ltd's proposed pulp mill in one of the biggest protests the state has seen since the Franklin dam debate."

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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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