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Sydney Harbour Bridge reopens after 90,000 march in pro-Palestinian rally (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 hours ago by Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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The rally in Melbourne hasn't gotten much coverage because of Sydney, but it is mentioned here. They clIm 3000 attended but that's way off, it was easily 25-40,000 (some estimates I've seen go as high as 50k). The march stretched down most of Bourke St and I couldn't see the start or end of it.

300k was the organiser estimate for Sydney which is about 5-6% of the city.

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[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

Hard to find footage of the Melbourne rally. I saw a clip somewhere that showed it to be much larger than I've seen reported. Lots of media reporting seems to be downplaying these rallies, or focusing on anything other than the message of the rallies.

EDIT:
This was the clip I had seen: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM4ibgKxTJR/
Or rehosted here: https://files.catbox.moe/6fqz5d.mp4