August 31st was a day of freedom protests across Australia in front of government legislative buildings at the state and local level.
Some protests also reported in New Zealand.
Hundreds at the New South Wales state legislative building in Sydney...
Police in New South Wales responding to protests at 79 different sites according to ABC News Australia.
And at least one arrest was made by police outside the Lismore Council Chambers...VIDEO LINK
The police in New South Wales have so far reported more than 150 arrests and more than 570 "penalty infringement notices" imposing multi-thousand dollar fines on the recipients.
The protests at multiple locations in New South Wales many near the northern border with Queensland and in Queensland itself outside the legislative building in Brisbane.
Mainstream media describing the crowd in the hundreds in Brisbane but also reporting a "lockdown": at the legislative building asserting the crowd was threatening to breach the building....
Back in New South Wales the Byron Shire Council chambers the site of a mass protest involving hundreds of people. Byron Shire a border area community in the northern part of the state...
Meanwhile in Brisbane this group of protesters were outside the Governor General's residence....
Making an appearance in northern New South Wales on his horse Michael Corrigan ("The Lone Horseman"). An earlier protest appearance by Corrigan riding his horse netted him a 7000 dollar fine (5119.26 US dollars)...
And at the closed down border between the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland this huge procession of protesters including horseman Michael Corrigan...
MORE DETAILS WILL BE POSTED LATER....
What we are learning is that this protest was called as a "silent protest" and that it encompassed not just locations in Australia but some in New Zealand as well.
Two women, one in Australia and the other in New Zealand, described as "leaders" of the protest were arrested...THE GUARDIAN UK...
"At the moment you are under arrest for incitement"
Those words spoken to Monica Smit who was pulled over by Victoria Police today and here embedded in a mainstream media piece calling her an "Anti-Vaxxer" is the video of Smit in her car when the arrest occurred...
MAINSTREAM MEDIA STORY MONICA SMIT ARRESTED FOR 'INCITEMENT'
For now that's the story of Tuesday's protests in Australia and New Zealand.
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