On June 17th, refugee and asylum seeker advocates stormed a speech by Federal ALP Minister for Immigration Chris Bowen at the University of NSW. About 30 protestors forced their way past security and were able to heckle and interupt Chris Bowen's speech for over 10 minutes before police back up came to eject them. The protestors labelled PM Gillard and the Malaysian solution as racist. My favourite was the protestor dressed as a cow carrying the placard "End human live exports to Malaysia!!
Note: It is interesting that the ABC editorialised on the demo labelling it as "spiteful". Yes standing up non-violently for human rights is very spiteful isn't it!
Read more on the demo at :
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/17/3246783.htm?section=justin
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/security-scare-as-minis......