Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City Hall
Source: Guardian
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City Hall
After Friday’s planned protest was called off due to storms, a reported 3,000 protesters gathered on Saturday as hundreds held a peaceful sit-in
Joshua Robertson in Brisbane
Sunday 3 May 2015 00.10 EDT
Hundreds of people “occupied” Brisbane’s City Hall in protest at the threatened closure of remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia.
The sit-in, which ended peacefully on Saturday evening after protesters chanted slogans and sported banners in the hall for more than two hours, followed nationwide protests on Friday.
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“We wanted to make a point to the state and federal government in Queensland that what affects Western Australia, their Indigenous communities, once they do that there, they’re going to come to Queensland, they’re going to close down communities like Cherbourg, Yarrabah, and all these other Indigenous communities.
“It’s all about mining and how much you can take out of the land and that’s the only reason that they are moving these communities away.”
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