{"id":276035,"date":"2025-08-31T20:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=276035"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:13:48","slug":"australians-demand-immigration-halt-in-nationwide-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=276035","title":{"rendered":"Australians Demand Immigration Halt in Nationwide Rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On August 31, 2025, thousands of Australians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=275920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\u2019s march for pausing immigration, the people have spoken\">participated in the &#8220;March for Australia&#8221; rallies<\/a> across cities like Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, protesting mass immigration policies amid concerns over housing shortages, infrastructure strain, and cultural preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organisers, including Libertarian Party member John Ruddick, demanded a five-year immigration pause, but tensions escalated with clashes involving counter-demonstrators and alleged neo-Nazi groups, prompting government condemnation and arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers, including Libertarian Party member John Ruddick, demanded a five-year immigration pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":275929,"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":[17958],"class_list":["post-276035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-march-for-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276035","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=276035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276036,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276035\/revisions\/276036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}