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MELBOURNE, June 7 — Australians who defied public health rules and rallied in support of the US “Black Lives Matter” movement were reckless and self-indulgent, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said today. More than 20,000 people protested in Sydney and other cities yesterday, in solidarity...

Police spray protesters with pepper spray inside the Central Station after a Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney, Australia June 6, 2020. — AAP Image via Reuters

More than 20,000 people protested in Sydney and other cities yesterday, in solidarity with US anger over the death of a black man in police custody and calling for an end to similar deaths of indigenous Australians.“I think it is incredibly selfish,” Cormann told Sky News. “It's incredibly self-indulgent.”

The protests came despite calls by authorities for people to stay at home and obey social-distancing rules that allow only for small groups to gather. “But we are going to have a mass gathering of tens of thousands of people in complete breach of the rules that apply to everyone else, it is absolutely reckless and irresponsible,” he said.

 

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Because that minister is a racist and a hypocrite. Just a week earlier he said it was the antivaxxers right to protest.

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