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From: David Quarter <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 6:11 PM
Subject: more figures on anti- rallies around Australia
From: "Kim Bullimore" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: more figures on anti- rallies around Australia
Date sent: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:17:47 +0000
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More anti-war rallies took place around Australia today:
In Newcastle (about an hour and half from Sydney and a "steel" town) around
18,000 to 20,000 rallied (which is HUGE for Newcastle !!)
In Canberra around 15,000
Geelong (about an hour from Melbourne): 150 (most people probably all went
to the Melbourne rally of 200,000 on Friday night)
Hobart (Tasmania): between 18,000 - 20, 000 (media says 10,000). Bigger
than any of the Franklin Dam protests in the 80s.
Launceston (Also in Tasmania) round 3000
Melbourne (on Friday night): between 200,000 and 250, 000 (media and cops
saying around 150,000)
Perth (Western Australia) 20,000 -30,000
Mackay (central Queenlsand) 1500 (this is a huge number for Mackay - like
Toowoomba, a very conservative place)
Albany (south Western Australia) 500
Byron Bay (central New South Wales) 2000
So far the total is: between 300,000 and 320,000 people have taken to the
street in Australia (more rallies to come tommorrow in Sydney, Darwin,
Adelaide and Brisbane and else where).
Also, just heard on the news that 14,000 rallied in Auckland and Wellington
in New Zealand as well.
comradely,
Kim B
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