{"id":304263,"date":"2025-10-20T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=304263"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:04:53","slug":"tom-elliott-goes-head-to-head-with-city-protester-following-day-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=304263","title":{"rendered":"Tom Elliott goes head-to-head with city protester following day of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=tom-elliott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tom Elliott\">Tom Elliott<\/a> has had his say on Sunday\u2019s violent CBD protests, saying the city was losing millions each week as locals stay away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>3AW Mornings<\/em>&nbsp;host believes Melbourne\u2019s reputation continues to be trashed internationally as a result of the shocking scenes, which have since been widely condemned by police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear Tom Elliott\u2019s thoughts on the protests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"CBD businesses losing millions following weekly protests\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/cbd-businesses-losing-millions-following-weekly-protests\/embed#?secret=cUQCukdZId\" data-secret=\"cUQCukdZId\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hearing (these protests) are costing millions of dollars of lost revenue every single Sunday,\u201d Tom said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom was also joined by Anneke, who organised one of the counter-protests outside Parliament House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear Tom Elliott\u2019s FULL interview with Anneke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"CBD businesses losing millions following weekly protests\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/cbd-businesses-losing-millions-following-weekly-protests\/embed#?secret=cUQCukdZId\" data-secret=\"cUQCukdZId\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I am no fan of Tom Elliot,<strong> he is a control freak advocating for restrictive protesting and reducing our democratic rights.<\/strong>  He only talks about stopping people&#8217;s rights to rally about their causes and looks down on those who do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Elliott wants this despite among 50,000 people there were a few who were trouble makers.   The focus should be on those who have caused the issues not those who are doing the right thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melbourne&#8217;s CBD is quite safe.  The media has an unhealthy focus on the very few incidents that are happening in the CBD.  Elliott focuses again on the international reputation but himself draws focus on the negativity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image: Asanka Ratnayake\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom was also joined by Anneke, who organised one of the counter-protests outside Parliament House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":304264,"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":[35,921,10738],"tags":[8054,993,11298,8],"class_list":["post-304263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","category-protestors","tag-3aw","tag-melbourne","tag-tom-elliott","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304263","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=304263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304268,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304263\/revisions\/304268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}