Victorian premier criticises protesters as unveiling of festive season attraction in Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall scrapped
The Myer Christmas windows in Melbourne in 2022. The 2024 launch event has been cancelled in response to a planned protest by Disrupt Wars.The Myer Christmas windows in Melbourne in 2022. The 2024 launch event has been cancelled in response to a planned protest by Disrupt Wars.A “furious” Jacinta Allan has accused a pro-Palestine group of stoking division after a planned demonstration in Bourke Street Mall led Myer to cancel the launch of its Christmas window display.
“We’re very pleased with the outcome that Myer has decided to cancel their consumerist party and we are more than happy for the children to enjoy the windows, they were never the target in the first place.” But the state’s premier on Friday took to social media to say she was “furious” the protesters had “chosen to politicise a beautiful event for children”.
Speaking later on 3AW Radio, Allan singled out the Victorian Greens, accusing the political party of using “conflict in the Middle East to bring further division and conflict into Melbourne”.While Palestine Melbourne, a group that holds regular rallies in the CBD on Sundays, had changed its usual route to avoid the mall, another group, Disrupt Wars, had encouraged supporters to bring “flags, placards, banners, props, noisemakers, and lots of energy ... to interrupt the Christmas windows reveal”.
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