A large group of men dressed in black and covering their faces with black masks were intercepted by police in Sydney. Six people were arrested and fined for offensive behavior, while others were served with public safety orders.
The first reports about a large group of men dressed in black and covering their faces with black masks broke on the afternoon of Australia Day. A group of about 60 men in balaclavas boarded a train at Sydney 's Artarmon station at about 11:30am on Friday and was intercepted by police at North Sydney . Six people were arrested and taken to Chatswood police station, and a further 55 men were fined for offensive behaviour.
On Saturday evening police broke up another gathering in North Turramurra and issued an extension of a public safety order. On Sunday some 30 men at Sydney's Artarmon Reserve were served with a public safety order prohibiting them from entering further local government areas. "Over the weekend, there was an attempt to appropriate and effectively hijack the Australia Day celebrations in Sydney by the far right," said Josh Roose, associate professor of politics at Deakin University. "This is a group that has, for the last half-decade or more sought to associate themselves with symbolic days and symbolic historic moments in Australi
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