Across the weekend, protests calling for a ceasefire and end to the complicity in genocide in Palestine, at Port Botany, Enmore Theatre and Sydney CBD have been met with increased police brutality.
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In the last state budget, NSW Police were given $5.5 billion of taxpayer funds. Mental health funding across the state sits at $2.9 billion.
Several students were tackled and arrested by police protecting the summit of Australian University executives, many of whom have engaged in wage theft and course cuts.
Documents from later education protests last year cement a picture of the University’s antagonistic attitude towards student activists and willingness for police intervention.
Some students sustained injuries after being pushed off the road by police.
Cops off campus.
Escalating student protests met with more police violence.
The rally marched along Oxford Street despite police repression.
Black Lives Matter protesters were pepper sprayed by police.
The protest demanded justice for the many uninvestigated First Nations people’s deaths at the hands of police
