Paul, Foxy just concede defeat on this point, Socialist Alternative were protesting Pyne in Footscray in the morning and then they skedaddled back to the city to block Flinders St in the afternoon.
They don't represent the people of Melbourne they're paid agitators who can at most pull about 50-60 people to an event, did you see their laughable "victory rally" in the city square in July?
According to the ABS two thirds of the permanent residents of the Melbourne CBD were born overseas, so yeah in actual fact it is an immigrant enclave what's more there are thousands of overseas guest workers and students living there so the proportions are even higher in reality.
Go there and walk around on a week night after all the office workers have gone home to the suburbs, all you see are Asians and a few White hipsters in the bars and laneways.

The rabid right, hate any referee to Nazism, its all rather inconvenient, yet you Beach are forever banging on about Trotsky, Trotskysts, Stalin, Stalinests, Marx, Marxists and the Watermelon Greens, whilst claiming that modicum of moderatcy.
A typical ploy of the extreme is to present the erosion of civil liberties as moderate but necessary, and normality will be maintained for the majority.

Thanks Foxy, its the same in Sydney. begs the question. Why can't you show your paperz, if you have nothing to hide. As Beach said "it makes sense." does it not?

What juvenile rot! Paul, try thinking for yourself for a change and give the ratbag press a miss. You are one of the 'useful idiots' playing into the hands of the media, which thinks that they should decide who runs the country.

I have always been vaguely antagonistic towards twitter. It seemed to be a place for a lot of trolling and verbal garbage being strewn around but after the instant demo against the border farce in Melbourne, it has changed my mind and I realise that it is an extremely necessary tool for democracy.
When talking about demands for your ID when on the street, it is not legal for the police ( or anyone else) to ask for anything other than your name and address WHEN carrying out an investigation and NOT just because they feel like it or to help abort win the Canning election.

The police dog can sniff first for drugs.

Hey, wait a bit, maybe just maybe that is why the Greens are so opposed to those nice doggies who sit down so politely and attentively.

ttbn, obviously you have thought long and hard on the subject, and have come to the conclusion these things are best left to the police pleasant dreams. Oh, and thanks for the insults.