Thousands rallied across Australian cities like Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane for the “March for Australia” protests, demanding a five-year pause on immigration amid housing affordability and cultural concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While many events remained peaceful, clashes erupted with neo-Nazi groups, leading to arrests and condemnations from officials including Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan<\/a>, who decried the violence and extremist ties as threats to multiculturalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Melbourne, Australia\u2019s fastest growing city and Australia\u2019s largest became a witness to the people today<\/a>. What transpired today should have not been a surprise to anyone especially\u00a0Anthony Albanese<\/a>\u00a0who at the last election was voted in for a second term of preferences with less than 1 in 3 people voting for a second Albanese term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While many events remained peaceful, clashes erupted with neo-Nazi groups, leading to arrests and condemnations from officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":275924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[8634,17958,993,17959,8],"class_list":["post-275946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-march-for-australia","tag-melbourne","tag-sussan-ley","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275961,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275946\/revisions\/275961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}