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Opera House Palestine demo sparks fear and fury · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. A flashpoint approaches as the world
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  Speaker 1: prepares to mark two years since Hamas's murderous October seven
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  Speaker 1: rampage against civilians in Israel. Pro Palestine marchers want to
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  Speaker 1: use the Sydney Opera House to stage a protest involving
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand demonstrators, sparking memories of the twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: protests that saw anti Semitic chanting and burning of the
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  Speaker 1: Israeli flag. New South Wales police say they're worried the
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  Speaker 1: march will get out of control and want Palestine Action
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  Speaker 1: Group to consider alternate routes for a march through the city.
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  Speaker 2: I've instructed the Office of General Counsel to lodge this
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  Speaker 2: matter in the Supreme Court, objecting to this particular public
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  Speaker 2: assembly at the Opera House. We're not anti protest. We
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  Speaker 2: facilitate thousands of protests and in fact, with this particular group,
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  Speaker 2: we've been facilitating protests and public assemblies for the last
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  Speaker 2: two years. It's about public safety. The Opera House cannot
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  Speaker 2: facilitate the amount of people that the form one has
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  Speaker 2: indicated are likely to attend. They have to have an
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  Speaker 2: ability in an emergency to get people out of that
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  Speaker 2: location safely.
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  Speaker 1: Jewish leaders say they're living in fear after this week's
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  Speaker 1: fatal attack at a synagogue in the United Kingdom. Former
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  Speaker 1: Treasurer at Josh Friedenberg says it's time for the Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister to step up now. The matter is likely headed
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  Speaker 1: for court, where protesters successfully convinced a judge to overrule
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  Speaker 1: police's objections to a march across the Sydney Harbor Bridge
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  Speaker 1: earlier this year. There's already been a march protesting against
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  Speaker 1: Israel's interception of a vessel carrying activists, including Sweden's Greta Tunberg,
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  Speaker 1: who was detained by the Israeli Navy.
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  Speaker 3: I have been abducted and taken against my will by
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  Speaker 3: Israeli corses human attacks. Mission was nonviolent and abiding by
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  Speaker 3: international law.
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