"Police in Western Australia have shut down the location of a planned Invasion Day rally after receiving reports of a threat targeting the Perth CBD. WA police issued a warning on Monday afternoon urging the public to stay away from the area and await further advice, saying they had deployed significant police resources to and set up an exclusion zone around Forrest Place. One person is in custody, they said."
"One attendee, Jade Cameron, told Guardian Australia that it was chaos. They [police] tried to get the elders and everyone from going into Forrest Chase but we didn't know why, they refused to let us have our usual ceremony, she said. We are deciding to push on and do circles all through the street, [but] we managed to get the elders away and safe and proceed."
"In Melbourne, about two dozen of the more than 500 people who attended the March for Australia anti-immigration rally, which was scheduled for the same time as the 30,000-strong Invasion Day rally, clashed with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander protesters and allies as the larger march was making its way down Bourke Street. Police in riot gear and the mounted police were concentrated on the March for Australia rally but interrupted four altercations between the two groups, involving between two and 10 anti-immigration protesters."
Police in Western Australia closed the planned Invasion Day rally site in Perth after a reported threat to the CBD and established an exclusion zone around Forrest Place. Significant police resources were deployed and one person was taken into custody. Attendees described chaotic scenes as police prevented elders entering Forrest Chase and halted a usual ceremony; protesters reformed to perform circles while ensuring elders' safety. Tens of thousands marched across eastern states as protests concluded. Police interrupted clashes between Invasion Day protesters and a small anti-immigration group in Melbourne and other cities, deploying riot and mounted units.
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