CHOGM demo a precursor to the big show…in a roundabout way

Australia , Journalism , Politics , Western Australia Oct 26, 2011 No Comments

About five kilometres from Perth’s CBD, as the F/A-18 Hornet flies, an earnest group of young people were gathering on the edge on the CHOGM security area. They had been told to meet at the roundabout on Bolton Avenue for a six o’clock start and had arrived suitably early. They didn’t appear entirely sure where to go, but the edge of the CHOGM security area seemed like a pretty safe bet.

A stone’s throw away from the Burswood Convention Centre, where Julia Gillard was attending a gala dinner at the CHOGM Business Forum and arguing in favour, as the protesters put it, of making the world’s poor even poorer, Bolton Avenue’s roundabout was to serve as the site of a warm-up protest ahead of Friday’s much-anticipated march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

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Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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