Crowds take to Australian streets for 'abolish the monarchy' protests on day of mourning for Queen

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On the national day of mourning for the Queen, thousands gather to protest and call for the recognition of injustices against Indigenous people.

, where Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton gave tributes to the late monarch.

Aboriginal leaders spoke to the crowd, calling for recognition of Indigenous suffering as a result of colonisation.

 

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Doing wonders for their cause.

Hmm “crowds” , ok.

Not a job or bar of soap between them 🤫

And out come the professional protesters AGAIN

XadrezVerbal

As long as the types like Lidia Thorpe remain in parliament, I will vote no to this voice to parliament. If she is an example of what this voice will ultimately look like, which it will, there is no way I could in any good conscience support it. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Did they talk paid leave or a holiday, should be paid leave ....

Bunch of wannabe victims, losers.

Just remember, the colonisers would not have survived if the First Australians did not show them how. Google is free, you do not need a degree to use it.

What is their mindset ?

Millions didn't

You forgot to mention the burning of the Australian flag

Nothing better to do on a day off? 😂😂😂

Great we live in a country where they are able to waste a day off protesting. Got to say though amongst the genuine marches there seemed to be a bunch of stirrers who only care about stirring not the cause. Personally you bring out paint and burn flags you lose my support.

Crowds? Only on 'our' ABC.

this is just as ridiculous as the Australia day 'walk through the city.'No one cares.

And the divide just gets wider and wider. Well played.

They have 0 respect for anyone!! get a job and get a life

our man in london would not approve

What a lot of vile people.

Nasty little bit of detail decided to avoid (which of course they wouldn’t have if it had involved a footy club or some sort of conservative organisation) ...

Where are you reports about all the people that went to the freedom protests. Oh you didn't do it. ABC you have no credibility, go and sit down and shut up.

I thought we’re meant to be one people. This minority of the population is driving a wedge between them and the rest of us. If they keep this shit up it will backfire in their face. It took a century to make this society open and accepting. Their bull shit will destroy that.

Great more they protest kiss goodbye to a win for Aboriginal so called voice in a waste of time referendum, many are opposed to it

I’ll remember this when I vote in the next referendum.

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Are these protesters the 25% of new aboriginals that suddenly popped up since the last census? Can we make them disappear again?

They burn our flag. Should be thrown in gaol. If the brave men and women who fought for Australia during WWII failed to protect Australia from the Japanese, they could be wiped out completely, or be speaking Japanese in a prison camp. Thank you - for nothing.

Hopefully ABC also adequately cover the domestic abuse and child abuse issues in outback indigenous communities.

I'm so ashamed 😞 I can't belive Aussies did this today. Not the time.

miz_rat Australia doesn't have the ability to 'abolish the monarchy'. Who came up with that slogan?

Wow it's great to see that so many people against the Monarchy are enjoying the day off to mourn the Queen. Hypocritical !!!

It just breaks my heart that old Uncle Jack isn't still around to pickpocket the onlookers.

Just look at the useless scum.

mahsaamini

Monarchy = bad, evil, non progressive. Just look at Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands… hang on a second. They are amongst the most tolerant, progressive countries around. Still, ignore that. Monarchy bad.

Look at all these gronks. VoteNo

The Aboriginal flag is not my flag. What would have happened to them if the poms didnt settle here ? Would they even be here or would they have died off. I haven't heard a thing about what has been built in the last 200 yrs. Because we all know what they built. NOTHING.

Disgusting

Oh dear, good job the Russian’s , Chinese or Indonesian’s didn’t come here

Our form of Government is the better system when you look worldwide 🌐 We are independent and our Government isn't interfered. No shining examples of brilliant Republic's around. Time to clean up internal issues. For the rest, no need to change when the system isn't broken.

Crowds!! Wow! Sick of listening to them. How many more years of this do we have to listen? Get a job, send your children to school and use all of the programs that taxpayers paid for. Oh that's right you want your land back! If only your mob would work as hard as the Queen.

“Crowds”

God save our king 🤴

Always something

They protest on the public holiday the death of our Monarch has given them.

Abolish this, abolish Australia Day.. Abolish us Australians ? What next!

Nothing else better to demonstrate about?

BullyForThem abcnews auspol

Crowds? For hire?

Commie scum

‘Crowds’! Is that what you say when you cannot count? The ABC way of trying to inflate numbers...

Legends. Read 'Legacy of Violence'.

A year ago today, protesters against government overeach were assaulted by riot police at the shrine of remembrance.

Totally disgraceful and unAustralian. God bless the King and may God forgive these flag burning individuals.

Not sure if it is worth protesting as having sewage systems, electricity, democratic process, rule of law etc makes it pretty good place, getting rid of all that because progress is not wanted seems weird. Wonder why baseball caps & western clothing is so prominent abcnews

Wack leftists take to the streets.

akaWACA Independence from the irrelevance of the British monarchy can’t come soon enough.

Marvellous, let’s give up one of the best governance systems and open your and your future generations to people like Trump, Putin, the Chinese and the North Koreans. You currently lead a life of freedom envied by many in other parts of the world

To my opinion, this protest could have waited... Even though they don't like the Monarchy, we should honour the death of someone.

Absolutely disgraceful

Australia is so bad now we need a total reset ditch the commonwealth ties and also the AU government to fk em all off and start again fresh

How some here defending the monarchy and at the same time questioning the intelligence of people who are protesting is beyond me!! Do you realise that a 🤡 who has been taking cash donations in duffle bags from Arab princes, aided in the defence of a pedophile is your state head!

Only the UK can abolish their Monarchy.

How would they like a Joe Biden coming in to destroy Australia? Thats one reason why the Queen was worth her weight in gold. She was there to stop Australia going under with stolen elections and deep state string pullers.

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Ok to protest but to be destructive throwing red paint on government buildings is not the way to gain support. All it does is alienate those you want support from.

Lame and in poor taste... Might have just killed The Voice and the next republic vote should it occur.

are authorities bout to arrest those Indigenous people who burned our flag today in Brisbane?

Random Souths guy 👍🏻

I’m white (well a white watering can) and I want to alienate the mainstream populous because they’re embarrassing ignoramuses.

Try for once to report real news

spot the aussie

Headman's axe for all these peasants. Then mount their heads on spikes as a warning.

Absolutely disgraceful. Long live the monarchy.

Most of em never done a days work in their handout lives. Hate the flag love the benefits.

Since when there's a monarchy in Australia? Leave Commonwealth and you are done with monarchy. Easy.

Do you still need to be jabbed to visit or help the Salvoes? General Booth would roll over in his grave at how low this corporation went during the fake hysteria of C-19 overkill

This is very… Victorian.

Not the day to be talking about this. If we are to become a Republic it's going to be years in the making, let's be sensible about it and converse appropriately.

Yet another alternative truth from the ABC. A small rabble took to the streets, hardly what you would call a crowd. That's why the ABC have a close in shot. You can none the less see the edge of the rabble at the top right hand side of the image. They need to respect publics will

Any room on Nauru?

And they wonder why most Australians will VoteNo they are an absolute disgrace- lead by Lidia Thorpe who is vile and putrid and has probably never met an indigenous person irl 🤡 lidiot greens DADS

Give youse the Tip.. There will be one on Coronation Day in 2023.. The Cafe Owners should start counselling now.

Rent a crowd.

Voice to parliament vote just sank.

Super spreader event !

LOL, their happy to take the public holiday though. 😂😂😂

Always was and always will be British land. If the South Indian/European descendants don’t like it well what can I say. Get over it

'Anti-monarchy protesters say the Queen represents colonialism, dispossession and genocide' Wow the Queen was older than I thought. 😜

Thanks to these disgraceful people I'm no longer a republican

A little tasteless in the timing. Some respect for what the day stands for, please. Wow.

Guilt trippers anonymous! Everyone should be very ashamed about everything!

disrespectful I would rather a Monarchy and constitution over an autocratic republic dictatorship greedy selfish destructiverule

Probably the same people you got behind when they demanded the removal of mask mandates - what’s your point?

MarieColemanAO Wonderful!

Shall we start burning Aboriginal flags in the streets? Imagine the uproar over that. Talk about racist.

What a waste of time, it actually doesn't affect our day to day lives in any way. Moaners gotta moan.

This would be like non-indigenous people celebrating the death of an Aboriginal elder. Imagine the uproar.

Disgraceful act of flag burning. How would these folk react if the indigenous flag was burned?

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There goes the Voice down the drain.

Burning a flag, that’s going advance the cause and not cause any trouble

And all the monarchist and whatever other forms of servants are already foaming like dogs with rabis 🤣🤣🤣

How about you mob protesting, get out & do something constructive & real like: helping out in the Salvos Meals kitchen for Homeless today!! Thats serving the community. Not being selfish.

And yet a great and respectful Aboriginal elder was at the funeral of our late Queen in London representing these people. This crowd are extremists, ordinary folk don’t trust or like extremists. Rightly or wrongly most Australians like the monarchy.

Look at them all. The only winner here is the local 7/11 charging $2per litre for 91.

No one was mourning except the people who work at your organisation

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StrewthQueen yay!

You people wasted a public holiday last count I saw for going republic you had fuck all chance👎🏿😁

Count the aboriginals folks.

Im seeing greenleft and socialist alliance as well as lidia thorpe hahahahaha yeah good crowd that is 😂

Interesting to compare the dignity of this protest to the unhinged responses on here (water cannon, rubber bullets, get a job, racist epithets, etc). Why are conservatives always so angry and scared?

what a disgrace, the Queen died. Some people will stop at nothing .

Did the WEF organize this?

Thank god there is multi culture in that protest or ABC will claim swastikas and nazi salutes were seen. A Republic cannot come soon enough.

“Crowds”

this is just BS. there is no model for a republic for anyone to vote on. This can change only happen via a referendum. and 60% dont want change at present because there is nothing to consider for change

Good, and a BIG NO THANK YOU to all the media who have for the past couple of weeks salivated like desperate outdated CONSERVATIVES over a figure-head that has long since had any meaning to many Australians, that includes you . auspol

Albomoronic to blame. He has milked the death of Queen. So over it and the pretence and snobbery of so called royals.

To be expected When the PM, master of no vision, so out of touch with history & the world, takes this amount of time off for queen that has done little for Australia as ppl live below the poverty line. The servile pompousity we have been treated to is plain Backwardness👇🏼

One can only hope it’s a super spreader event.

Nothing to see here.

Bring on the Republic vote

Proud to see the Rabbitohs cap front and centre.

Someone throw some soap to disperse the crowd.

Abolish the monarchy? Then what? Everything just disappears?

The best argument against republicanism is these flag burners who would like us all to become a dependency of the EU

Usual activists. Hardly news

Sick

Oh ffs, some will demonstrate for the sake of something to do on a beautiful day, go make yourselves useful, visit a nursing home, walk a dog at LDH, talk to a homeless person instead

This type of shit is what is harmful. People see how much (very small) respect these people have

Chaos and disorder is not my idea of a better future.

Why didn’t they just go to work if they disagree.

🇦🇺🍃🐨 Rarely been so ashamed to be Australian. No wonder the country is sliding to 💩. This is no longer the decent place it once was.

Sick and tired of the Victim mentality and sense of entitlement. Many of Australians had ancestors die from starvation and disease as Convicts shipped from England away from families. Australia has up to now been the best country in the world to live in.

Filth

What a load of 💩💩💩💩💩

Grace and civility are foreign concepts to leftists

Whiny losers ItIsToLaugh

These people wouldn't have the freedom to protest without colonisation and the monarchy. Should be grateful!

Australia needs to move on from been ruled by a monarchy and transition to a republic.

What a load of bollocks. Why don't these people get a real job and stop pissing against the wind.

Break out the water cannon, they could do with a wash. Degenerates.

Protesting on a day of remembrance shows the calibre of person protesting.

Arrest this bunch of cookers

So they blame the Queen for the stolen generation. She wasn't the Queen when it became law. Australia was a federation responsible for its own laws. Maybe if Aus wasn't federal and run by the Monarchy it wouldn't have happened.

How good 🤣

We live in a democracy. No one has the right to tell you when and how you protest. We don't have to agree with the sentiment of the protest but we have the right to do it.

Very disrespectful,

And replace with what exactly? Something better?

Yep. Can see that...🤔

Long live the King 👑

At least they're doing more for the VoteNo campaign than a hundred op-eds. Thanks!

Well done ABC for publicising false flag events staged by Vote No racists.

That's a bit dumb. I'm not at all interested in abolishing the monarchy. They are so far from relevant here it's just piss and vinegar. How about being for a meaningful republic?

The cream of our trash, you can see them every morning outside Centrelink.

This puerile tantrum is what a 'Voice' would look like. VoteNo

Don’t understand the “always was always will be aboriginal land”. Republic or not, Australia will still be run by white people. And having a voice to parliament and a head of state aren’t mutually exclusive. I feel like the protesters don’t understand their goal.

Same principles apply ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Do they want to abolish the British monarch who has powers or the Australian monarch who has no powers

Take away everything western civilisation has brought to the aboriginals. Let's see who complains about the monarchy then lol

Shouldn’t they be working then?

No overhead photos showing the vast crowds?

No wide angle photos?

Scumbags self-identifying.

This obviously took a few brain cells , I am so sick of this shit if we had burnt the aboriginal flag all hell would of broken loose. But it’s ok for them to burn the Australian flag and nothing happens go figure. They need to sort out their own backyard instead of shit like this

Ah bless em! Why are they not getting the rubber bullet treatment?

Fantastic! Wish I was there 👏👏

Abolish the ABC... marxists. auspol

Let me fix that. “Mainly disenfranchised white people, latch onto a cause that that will make no difference to Aboriginal people as a way to virtue signal they care”.

None of them would last a day without the gifts of colonialism.

Vote NO

OH YES .ALL TAX MONEY IS WASTE PL

on the day of a significance we start talking about related topics, meaning there is nothing wrong with this and it’s just natural. good on them. (did you talk about gun control on a shooting incident? yeah it’s natural)

Monarchies are an expensive, pointless relic, doubly so when it's someone else's monarch on the other side of the world.

Gets a public holiday complains about the reason y they get a public holiday 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Go back to work

There should be a discussion around a republic but not on the day of mourning. Whatever someone’s feeling are towards the monarch. Today was not the day for this protest. They could have done it the next day, if it was important to bring it up so soon.

Shouldn’t they have gone to work?

Don’t mistaken these rabble for the indigenous activists.

Crowd. No “s”. It’s not large enough for the plural.

Great to see indigenous Australians reaching out to non indigenous Australians in the spirit of friendship, healing and reconciliation…..

Take the holiday to protest the reason for the holiday Ok hypocrites

Hey ABC imagine if a white man burnt the Aboriginals flag. How about some balanced reporting for a change.

Your so pathetic ABC

Keep protesting ya peanuts it won't happen lol 😆 🤣 😂 😜

Pathetic

*cowards

But wait... a recent poll told me what a referendum to become a reppublic wouldn't pass... and polls are NEVER WRONG!

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