{"id":304333,"date":"2025-10-20T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=304333"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:48:24","slug":"thousands-rally-against-immigration-in-australian-cities-melbourne-clashes-injure-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=304333","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Rally Against Immigration in Australian Cities, Melbourne Clashes Injure Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 19, 2025, the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=march-for-australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"March for Australia\">March for Australia<\/a>&#8216; protests drew thousands across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sydney\">Sydney<\/a>, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Canberra, calling for a five-year pause on non-essential migration amid housing and infrastructure strains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While most rallies remained peaceful, counter-protesters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> clashed with police, resulting in two officers injured and the use of tear gas and rubber bullets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Victoria Police commended the main protesters for their restraint but blamed left-wing groups for the violence, as media coverage faced accusations of distortion.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Police commended the main protesters for their restraint but blamed left-wing groups for the violence.<\/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":[273,35,10738],"tags":[17958,993,8],"class_list":["post-304333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-protestors","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\/304333","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=304333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304334,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304333\/revisions\/304334"}],"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=304333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}