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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Howard enters Cole Commission
I've just come from Market st. in Sydney city where Howard has entered the Cole Commission at about 9.45am to give his evidence.
He didn’t enter a side door, nor drive in. He walked in after being dropped off a fair way up the street.
A small bunch of anti-war and pro-refugee protestors waited on the other side of the road surrounded by police.
So I wandered back to the other side of the street away from the protesters and next to the entrance to the building that is housing the Commission. I popped in to the St George bank for a bit of privacy, whipped out my texta and wrote a little sign on an A4 piece op paper.
So when Howard came by, with the protesters far away on the other side of the road, I was able to get right beside the PM, pull out my piece of paper and place the word “RODENT” next to his head (see photo taken shorlty before above) Together we walked a few yards as he made his way to enter the building. I was the only protester to get anywhere near him. Eventually I was bundled away by an aggressive plain clothes security agent.
Meanwhile just after he entered the building, refugee activist Ian Rintoul made a dive for the front door. He collided with some journalists shortly before a police scrum tackled and arrested him.
So while Howard’s security decoy strategy almost worked today, a few protesters managed to use a decoy strategy of our own to get up close and personal.
Postscript: on some TV news the protest could be seen and the Daily Telegraph's Malcolm Farr covered it with a story and photo.
posted by Ben Oquist # 11:15 AM
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