Fifty students protest
NZPA staff correspondent Melbourne
Only about 50 vociferous student demonstrators braved freezing temperatures to protest against New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon, in Melbourne last evening. . The expected thousands of demonstrators protesting against Sir Robert’s alleged support for apartheid be-
cause of his refusal to block the 1981 Springbok rugby tour failed to materialise.
The big police contingent, including members of the elite tactical support squad, were left refereeing a noisy chanting match between the demonstrators and a big group of young Liberals supporters. However, the demonstrators kept up their chanting
throughout the Prime Minister’s hour-long speech at Monash University. The demonstrators, including a group bearing red flags from the International Socialist Group, carried banners saying that Sir Robert supported apartheid, was pro sex-discrimination, nuclear weapons and racism, and were met by Liberals chanting "boring” and “We can’t hear you.”
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