Australia Day Riots Hannah Bowles

  • 1 Protest was sparked by comments made by Tony Abbot about "moving on"

    Tony Abbot was making a speech about how he admired the Aborigional tent embassy, and said its time to move on to see what we can do in the future to help. The media cut out the "moving on" and pasted it singally. This was on twitter,facebook and texts in seconds. When the protesters found out, they wernt happy
  • 2 Violent protests out side the Lobby Resturant where Julia Gillard and Tony Abbot were giving out awards

    Julia Gillard and Tony Abbot were giving out awards when an angry mob of over 200 people started banging on the windows, something the security and police wern`t prepared for at all.
  • 3 Julia Gillard and Tony Abbot are evacuated

    The police came up to Julia Gillard and said that it was getting seriouse, and they had to evacuate.
  • 4 Julia Gillard stumbled as she reached the car

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    Australia Day 2012