Australians have long watched overseas riots on the telly. ‘Those crazy foreigners, lucky it doesn’t happen here,’ we’d say. Well, those riots are no longer just on the telly, they are happening on Australian soil. Rather than condemning this violent behaviour, the Australian Greens are effectively cheering them on.
The irony of the riots is that the crowd outside the Melbourne Convention Centre, many of them wearing masks and keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags, were protesting for peace.
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