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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Why aren’t pro-Palestine protesters allowed to march across Brisbane’s Story Bridge?

Protesters and a Palestine flag waving
A Justice for Palestine rally in Brisbane on 1 August. The Queensland police service will not authorise a march across the city’s Story Bridge, ‘due to public safety concerns and significant disruption to the rights and freedoms of other members of the community’. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Pro-Palestine protesters say they will challenge the Queensland police service in court after a planned march over Brisbane’s Story Bridge was denied authorisation.

The two parties entered mediation on Tuesday ahead of a planned 24 August rally at the bridge as part of nationwide protests to demand an end to what they, alongside UN experts and special rapporteurs, Israeli and international human rights groups and scholars of genocide, describe as the starvation and genocide of the people of Gaza.

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