Sarah Shaweesh says she entered the prime minister’s office as a constituent seeking information about her family’s declined visa application
Protesters have been picketing Anthony Albanese’s electorate office since Israel took military action in response to the 7 October attacks by Hamas.Protesters have been picketing Anthony Albanese’s electorate office since Israel took military action in response to the 7 October attacks by Hamas.seeking visa help has been arrested and charged with trespassing, after she allegedly refused to leave the prime minister’s electorate office in the Sydney seat of Grayndler.
NSW police said in a statement on Thursday afternoon police had been called to Marrickville Road at 11.50am “following reports of a number of people refusing to leave an office”. Late on Thursday afternoon, protesters outside Albanese’s office were handed a notice signed by Albanese’s electorate office manager written on Albanese’s letterhead advising that the “ongoing protest activities in the immediate vicinity of this office are significantly impeding the movement of staff and constituents in and out of the office”.
By late Thursday afternoon, a number of protesters who’ve helped support the picket since it began in mid-February gathered outside as the group began to tear down the paraphernalia out the front. A protest rights campaigner for Australian Democracy Network, Anastasia Radievska, said protests outside the offices of elected members was “an important form of expression in a democracy”.
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