Thousands of people attend Australia with anti-immigration rallies

Thousands of Australians have proven for anti-immigration rallies across the country which have been condemned by the government as having far-right ties and “spread hatred”.

March for Australia Rallies took place in Sydney, Melbourne and in other major cities – and several clashes took place while the walkers encountered counter -demonstrations.

A certain number of opposition politicians have joined the steps, including the senator of a nation Pauline Hanson and the federal deputy Bob Katter.

Australia faced a recent increase in right extremism and made Nazi salvation liable to a compulsory prison sentence earlier this year.

Up to 8,000 people gathered for the Sydney rally, according to ABC Australia. Police said hundreds of agents had been deployed throughout the city, but had seen “no significant incident”.

In Melbourne, demonstrators clashed with the participants of a separate pro-Palestine rally. Among the speakers was Thomas Sewell, a known neonazi who tackled the crowd of parliament.

In Adélaïde, the police estimated that 15,000 people were present both during a rally and the counter-demo, and said that crowds were “generally well high”, according to local media.

A demonstrator was seen with a sign expressing his support for Dezi Freeman, a conspiracy theorist and a “sovereign citizen” who is accused who shot the dead of two police officers on his property earlier this week. A large -scale man hunt is underway for Freeman, 56.

The marches were promoted by several opposition politicians, neonazi personalities and anti-supplier activists who took on importance during the Pandemic COVID-19.

The March for Australia’s website indicates that “the unity of Australia and the shared values ​​have been eroded by policies and movements that divide us”, adding that “mass migration has torn the obligations that maintained our communities together”.

The group also says that it is also concerned about cultivation, wages, traffic, housing and water supply, environmental destruction, infrastructure, hospitals, crime and community loss.

Earlier this week, the government said that he had opposed the rallies, warning “there is no room for any type of hatred in Australia”.

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Tony Burke, said: “There is no room in our country for people who seek to divide and undermine our social cohesion.

“We stick to modern Australia against these rallies – nothing could be less Australian.”

Dr. Anne Aly, the Minister of Multicultural Affairs, said: “We are holding with all the Australians, no matter where they were born, against those who seek to divide us and who seek to intimidate migrant communities. We will not be intimidated.

“This far -right activism brand based on racism and ethnocentrism has no place in modern Australia.”