{"id":206744,"date":"2025-10-12T01:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206744\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T01:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:48:27","slug":"pro-palestinian-rallies-live-updates-protesters-gather-across-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206744\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian rallies live updates: Protesters gather across Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

7m agoSun 12 Oct 2025 at 1:40am<\/p>\n

Protests are promoting peace, attendee says\"Natasha<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people are gathering outside the State Library of Victoria to hear speeches before marching through the CBD and on to St Kilda Road towards the US consulate days after a ceasefire was declared in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\"A(ABC News: Natasha Schapova)<\/p>\n

One attendee said protestors were promoting peace while ensuring a stop to the genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Another said it was important people continued to regularly show their support for peace in Gaza, every Sunday.<\/p>\n

“I think the people power that’s been demonstrated over the past two years is testament as to why we’re at where we’re at,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think Melburnians understand that we need to keep coming out.”<\/p>\n

\"A(ABC News: Natasha Schapova)<\/p>\n

12m agoSun 12 Oct 2025 at 1:35am<\/p>\n

Calm scenes at the Opera House\"Anton<\/p>\n

It is all quiet at the Sydney Opera House ahead of today’s march at Hyde Park.<\/p>\n

There is a visible police presence around the landmark after a court ruled the rally scheduled for today could not proceed at the Opera House.<\/p>\n

\"\"(ABC News)\"\"(ABC News)<\/p>\n

17m agoSun 12 Oct 2025 at 1:30am<\/p>\n

From marathon to march, roads in Melbourne have been closed all day\"Maddy<\/p>\n

\u00a0It’s a busy day in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Protestors are beginning to gather in\u00a0Melbourne’s CBD\u00a0outside the Victoria State Library on Swanston Street, before heading down St Kilda Road towards the US consulate.<\/p>\n

Both Swanston Street and St Kilda Road have been closed all morning for the Nike Melbourne Marathon \u2014 which saw a record-breaking 50,000 attendees hitting the pavement in the inner-city \u2014and will remain closed for today’s march.<\/p>\n

\"\"(ABC News)<\/p>\n

24m agoSun 12 Oct 2025 at 1:23am<\/p>\n

Opera House off the agenda for Sydney rally\"Paulina<\/p>\n

Protesters are starting to gather at Sydney’s Hyde Park where they will hear from speakers, including three Australians who took part in the Sumud Flotilla attempting to deliver aid to Gaza.<\/p>\n

They will then make their way down George Street to Belmore Park.<\/p>\n

Original plans to protest at the Opera House were changed by organisers after a prohibition order by police was approved by the NSW Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Police argued the plan posed a risk of a crowd crush, and said they would have police stationed at the forecourt of the iconic venue to make sure protesters didn’t gather there.<\/p>\n

43m agoSun 12 Oct 2025 at 1:03am<\/p>\n

Welcome to our live coverage\"Elissa<\/p>\n

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of today’s nationwide pro-Palestinian action.<\/p>\n

There are dozens of protests planned across the country today, with some already underway on the east coast.<\/p>\n

We’ll bring you updates from around the country throughout the day, so stay with us for the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7m agoSun 12 Oct 2025 at 1:40am Protests are promoting peace, attendee says Hundreds of people are gathering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,22131,6898,6897,68011,44,6899,2647],"class_list":["post-206744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ceasefire","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-nationwide-march-for-palestine","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}