September 21, 2021
In Melbourne, Australia, the fury over vaccine mandates is exploding
By Andrea Widburg
The Australian state of Victoria, the capital of which is Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, has seen some of the world’s most draconian COVID rules. The latest order, mandating vaccines for the construction industry along with a two-week industry-wide shutdown, sparked huge, violent protests from trade unions. Most strikingly, union members turned against their own union boss.
The Daily Mail described the frenzy of two days of protests (with “tradies” referring to the trade unionists):
Furious ‘freedom’ protests have erupted across Melbourne with anti-vaxxer tradies massing outside Victoria’s Parliament House and a TV reporter assaulted and doused in urine in vile scenes.
Hundreds of construction workers and anti-vaxxers took to the streets for the second consecutive day on Tuesday - many of them distraught after a tradesman took his own life at a construction site earlier in the day.
Demonstrators sung Advance Australia Fair and chanted ‘f*** the jab’ in protest against mandatory vaccination orders for the industry, and Premier Daniel Andrews’ decision to shut the industry down for two weeks, amid soaring case numbers.
The protest began outside the boarded up head office of the construction union, the CFMEU, which was badly damaged by violent demonstrations just 24 hours before.
More than 100 police officers walked up Swanston Street in pursuit of the crowd, with officers warning demonstrators on a loudspeaker to turn back.
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It comes as Victoria recorded 603 new cases on Tuesday, the highest daily tally in the current outbreak and since August 2020, bringing the number of active cases to 6,000.
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The Melbourne protesters are also using encrypted platform Telegram to call for an end to lockdowns, mandatory mask orders and the immediate reopening of the construction industry.
Three of the demands called for Victoria’s leading figureheads in its pandemic response to stand down - Premier Daniel Andrews, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton and Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton.
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Their final demand was for the ‘mass distribution of invermectin [sic], Vitamins C, D and Zinc’ as alternative treatments for Covid-19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3hJW43SVc&t=58s&ab_channel=SkyNewsAustraliamore
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/in_melbourne_australia_the_fury_over_vaccine_mandates_is_exploding.html
