Students have set up camp at Sydney University on the back of pro-Palestinian encampments and demonstrations that have swept through US institutions and led to mass arrests and cancelled classes.
The encampment at Sydney University remained in placed on Wednesday, with a few hundred staff and students joining a rally and march through the university. Sydney University student organisers say their encampment is only the second international protest and first in Australia since the protests spread across the US.Student and organiser Jasmine Al-Rawi said the protesters were “just getting started”, vowing to remain at the campsite outside the university’s famous quadrangle building.
“We are all out here today because we saw what was happening in America and we thought, ‘let’s do that here’,” he told the rally.
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