Weapons expo enters second day after protesters marched through Perth CBD
Police are preparing for another major operation guarding the second day of the Land Forces expo at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Last night, hundreds of anti-war protesters who oppose the international weapons event took to the streets of Perth’s CBD to rally against it.
The peaceful protect began at Forrest Place and ended at Elizabeth Quay, with police making no arrests, and issuing no move on notices.
It was a starkly different scene to the violence witnessed on the streets of Melbourne two years ago, when the city hosted the same event.
The WA Police operation to keep the peace during the three-day event is the force’s largest operation in 15 years since Queen Elizabeth visited as part of CHOGM.
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Making headlines today, a Perth private paramedic collapsed in court after he was shown footage of a head-on crash he allegedly caused by driving on the wrong side of the road with unauthorised lights and sirens on his personal car.
Jack Dunn, 30, appeared in Joondalup Magistrates Court on Tuesday, charged with aggravated dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm, four counts of aggravated dangerous driving causing bodily harm and attempting to pervert the course of justice over Sunday’s crash in Wanneroo.
Meanwhile, it’s been one year to the week since WA Liberal MP Andrew Hastie quit Sussan Ley’s frontbench to speak his mind on migration.
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