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Holly Hales and Dominic Giannini

PM defends student protests as police warn of violence

Police have expressed concern about violence breaking out at protest camps at universities. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Senior ministers have defended students' rights to peacefully protest against the war in Gaza but have condemned anti-Semitism as police warn of the potential for violence. 

Hundreds of students across the University of Melbourne, RMIT, Monash, Deakin and Latrobe universities have pitched tents and staged campus sit-ins since April. 

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