Daniel Andrews has called out the Let Women Speak event in Melbourne as anti-trans, describing it as 'a nasty, hateful event, long before anyone offered up the Nazi salute'. Read more about the event here:
About 30 men repeatedly performed the Nazi salute and taunted transgender rights protesters.
"The government has absolutely no tolerance for this sort of behaviour and we'll continue to work very, very hard to address what sits behind those sorts of disgraceful actions," she told reporters on Sunday. "We've seen that in New Zealand. We've seen that in many other parts of the world. And, indeed, unchecked in Australia it will have the same effect."Spring Street and the surrounding area were blocked to traffic for several hours as police, including mounted officers, tried to keep the protesters separated.
Vision of an arrest posted to social media appears to show a police officer twice knee a prone protester in the back.
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