more police than protesters in the pics:
5 Sept: Daily Mail: Wild scenes in Melbourne as 1,000 anti-lockdown protesters descend on the city and clash with police – as Daniel Andrews warns restrictions won’t end ‘until virus is defeated’
• Protesters have been arrested at Freedom Day rally in Melbourne on Saturday morning
• Hundreds turned up to ‘Freedom Day’ marches in the coronavirus-hit city - demanding an end to lockdown
•Alarming footage captured demonstrators lying on the ground while being taken away in handcuffs
By Eliza Mcphee
One crowd faced off with police on horseback as the chant ‘Freedom’ rang out across the city while dozens were arrested...
One man claimed he was going to see the dentist when confronted by police outside the Shrine of Remembrance.
Police later arrested the man and forced a face mask upon him, The Herald Sun reported...
One woman with a top reading: ‘Freedom’ was seen being dragged away by two police officers as she desperately tried to fight them off.
Meanwhile, another man was seen dragged away from the demonstration with his shirt pulled up around his arm...
The large crowd which has reportedly grown into the thousands has even stopped traffic throughout Melbourne’s CBD.
Police helicopters are circling overhead keeping a watchful eye on the furious protesters below...
Earlier leaked documents suggested the 8pm-5am curfew and tough restrictions on businesses would continue for another two weeks...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8700047/Cops-swarm-anti-lockdown-protesters-Melbourne-Freedom-Day-rally.html
They moved down St. Kildas Road and gathered at Albert Park with the demonstration for now beyond the ability of the police to suppress it in the “Peoples Democratic Republic of Australia”. (sarc)