{"id":304275,"date":"2025-10-20T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=304275"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:20:38","slug":"protests-in-melbourne-boil-over-with-heavy-handed-police-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=304275","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Melbourne boil over with heavy handed Police engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tensions have boiled over as March for Australia and counter-protesters took to the streets of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> and other capital cities for the second time in as many months, with two Victoria Police officers hospitalised following the protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of police officers, a group composed of both those in riot gear and mounted police, separated a March for Australia group estimated to be in the thousands, and a group of anti-racism protesters in Melbourne&#8217;s centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NecPgk26aJ3qZyNI.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=march-for-australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"March for Australia\">March for Australia<\/a> protesters were clad in Australian flags, with some waving anti-immigration banners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, counter-protesters carried a range of banners and signs with anti-fascist and anti-racist slogans, while others waved Palestinian, Somali and Aboriginal flags.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"862\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b31bff9f570c0ff8ddc12f9cea275f53.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b31bff9f570c0ff8ddc12f9cea275f53.avif 862w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b31bff9f570c0ff8ddc12f9cea275f53-300x200.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b31bff9f570c0ff8ddc12f9cea275f53-768x512.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A 30-year-old woman was arrested in Melbourne, with police deploying crowd control measures, including OC (or pepper) spray, flash-bangs and rubber bullets during a tense stand-off with counter protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=tom-elliott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tom Elliott<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=304263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">had his say on Sunday\u2019s violent CBD protests<\/a>, saying the city was losing millions each week as locals stay away. But of course and as usual there are no facts to back up his wild claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would not suprise me at all to see a lift in takings for cafes and other food locations with additional people coming into the CBD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March for Australia protesters were clad in Australian flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":304327,"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":[273,35],"tags":[17958,993,8],"class_list":["post-304275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-march-for-australia","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304275","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=304275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304283,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304275\/revisions\/304283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}