Sydney Harbour Bridge Gaza protest: How media covered it

According to the official number, more than 100,000 Sydneysider walked at the city’s iconic turning point on Sunday and protested the ongoing Israeli Gaza bombardment and called for action about what the United Nations had. defined as the “worst famine scenario” in the region.
Before the last -minute decision by the NSW Supreme Court, an application from protest organizers was initially rejected by NSW police for “public security .. to create There was a “very high” public interest in the future protest. NSW Police historically He had an opposite relationship with peaceful protesters. Premier Chris Minns, closing the harbor bridge likely “Logistics and Communication Everest”.
At a press conference after the march, NSW Police Deputy Deputy Commissioner Peter McKenna said that most of the Sydney hiking is “very well behaved” and contributed to an operational “success”, but “Gee Whiz, I don’t want to do this every Sunday”.
At a press conference on Monday morning, Minns told the protesters’ case that the “big ground turmoil” should not mean that no one should believe that no one should believe in the bridge ”.
“We will not have a situation that an anti -VAXXER group had on Saturday… And then after an environmental reason at the weekend… A large city like Sydney could not cope with it.”
The protest has taken a different scope among the receiving outlets, many historically, to the conflict in Gaza.
ABC
ABC’s Nabil Al-Nashar described the protesters as “brave… a real rain storm, the courts that decided on Saturday, and they have covered the political will of NSW Prime Minister Chris Minns to be here today”.
“Incredible, the number of people emerging,” Al-Nashar said in his live cross. Al-Nashar said the police commander, who guaranteed the walk, gave him at least 100,000 protesters on the bridge.
Western Australia
On the contrary, Western Australia With the protests on the front page of the article on Monday, he carried a NCA Newswire story with the title “Bloody Chaos”.
Baby Baby babies infected with fake blood and the Aussie flag were burned as we become our norm of wild protests ”, read the subtitle.

Fire Removal Pre -Page Formerly received heavy criticism Media Time It is home to Paul Barry, called “absolute shame ..
“Editor must be dismissed,” Barry written X.
“Children are starving in Gaza. Desperate people for meals are shot by IDF.
Guardian Australia
Guardian Australia’s main title reportHe was written on the ground by Jordyn Beazley and Caitlin Cassidy, and was named as “they walk towards the Sydney Harbor Bridge, which called to end killing in Gaza”.
The report led Julian Assange, former Foreign Minister and NSW Prime Minister Bob Carr and government Backbencher Ed Husic, including high -profile names walking on the bridge. The report also stated that a number of Minns’ own ministers were identified in March, including Yukarı House Leader and Energy Minister Penny Sharpe and Youth Justice Minister Jihad Dib.
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A Piece of Appearances Anne Davies argued that Premier Minns’ extreme Israeli stance ”“ now shook her own team ”and“ on Sunday, the decision to oppose the Palestinian march on the Sydney Harbor Bridge was a critical judicial error ”.
“In particular, some state labor questioned why Minns did not leave it to the police and courts. Premier was weighed early against the protest supported by pro -Conservative Israeli commentators.”
Sydney Morning Herald
“Sydney says ‘enough’ SMH’s The front page that four different journalists contributed on Byline. Forerunner With the quotes of the protest organizer Josh Lees, he called the march as “bigger” and “monumental and historical” success.

“Despite the worst fears of the NSW police and Premier Chris Minns, as Sydney appeared collectively for humanity to beg for humanity, the pro -Filestin protest will be remembered on Sunday Bridge on Sunday” . SMH’s NSW Political Editor Alexandra Smith. “Protesting against a human crisis that grew up in Gaza entered the mainstream.”
The Daily Telegraph
ForerunnerTableid opponent, News Published Daily telegramAfter Wests Tigers’ sad win against Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, NSW chose to ignore the pre-page protest with the changes in the arms laws and NRL players Jarome Luai and Lachlan Galvin.
A small poster at the top of the front page referred to a report about a report on a report and “a very far bridge? Did the chaotic protest create an undesirable precedent?”
. Telegram The primary scope is in BYLIN senior reporter Danielle Gusmaroli ( Telegram “UnderCoverjew” scandal, Crirase And described by Media Time As the most “filthy” in the history of the 145 -year -old painting.)
The report of Gusmaroli and his colleagues was beginning: “Almost Disaster: Gaza Chaos in March”.
Police commissioner McKenna, who means that the volume of the protesters is “very close to we have a disastrous situation”, referred to the statements made by McKenna. At the same press conference, McKenna said that the protesters are “very well behaved”.

Nine news
Nine News’ Damian Ryan, Sunday night at 18:00 packet “Federal government is now pressing by saying that it is now [to act on Gaza]As the mounted police took action to get the bridge back – the profession and the world would watch ”.
In the studio, Ryan said that there was a “extraordinary ör response from the protesters following the state government’s attempt to close the protest, and called the bridge as öne central for history ..
Following Ryan’s package, Nine’s James Wilson described the mood on the bridge as “special and important, many people, we all blown and covered the harbor bridge”.
Sky News
Sky News Australia hosted the liberal senator Jane Hume on First editionJames Macpherson and Danica de Giorgio on Sunday night controversial Protest.
MacPherson Protestors “Hamas Shake Flags [and] The Taliban Flags ”, De Giorgio protesters condemned the Palestinians’ pseudo -so -called” starvation.
Macpherson, “Hiking also ignored the people of Sydney, whose ability to pass the city is impossible with the closure of the bridge,” Macpherson said.
There are three train lines passing the bridge and a road tunnel under the harbor. Supreme Court Justice Belinda Rigg, while allowing the protest, “the right to protest in the nature of the right to protest,” he said.
Australia
Meanwhile, News Corp’s national broad page Australia very focused In an image organized by the protester of the Iranian leader Ayatullah Ali Khanei in front of the march.
“Sydney Harbor Bridge Pro-Filestin Pro-Protes, Ayatullah image and traffic chaos was left in the shadow”, the report of the report of Stephen Rice and Joanna Panagopoulos.
Australia He also carried a piece of view on the front page of Monday morning by British historian Niall Ferguson. titled “A genocide continues – but not in Gaza”.
Another report of Rice described the protest organizer Josh Lees as “serial pest ında in the nail marks in the title, but these words were not seen in the copy of the article. Australia Contacts for the comment, but did not respond to the broadcast on time.
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