00:00Tensions boiling over in the capital as police tried to handle a volatile crowd.
00:07You're under arrest.
00:09Your hands go on your back.
00:10Around 300 people joined the March for Australia,
00:14which made its way across the Commonwealth Avenue bridge.
00:17Around 150 counter-protesters were waiting to meet them.
00:21Nazis are not welcome here.
00:24Some among the Rally for Australia expressed extreme views.
00:27Others raised concerns about mass immigration.
00:30Too many people are coming here too quickly and there's not enough housing,
00:34there's not enough services and facilities.
00:36There was also anger about the direction the country is taking.
00:39No infrastructure that's been built in the country at all.
00:42The wages are stagnant, inflation high.
00:45Counter-protesters argued against anti-immigration messages.
00:49There are always benefits from immigration to Australia.
00:51It broadens our cultural base.
00:53It is humanitarian.
00:56Refugees and migrants have contributed hugely to Australian society.
01:01We have been a very successful multicultural nation.
01:06Police worked hard to keep the two groups apart,
01:09arresting two people who were later released without charge.
01:12The rally made its way to the lawns of Parliament House,
01:15where hostilities continued.
01:17We are seeing rents exploding, house prices out of reach, hospitals full, roads jammed.
01:26Similar rallies were held across the country, including in Brisbane and Melbourne,
01:31where police say they were attacked by those protesting against the rally.
01:35These were being thrown at police.
01:37Bottles filled with shards of glass were being thrown at the police.
01:40Two officers were taken to hospital, one with a broken hand, on a day of high tensions.
01:50Making an awful lot of Até poll, one with a broken hand, on the way of a broken hand.
01:52One with an eariden's pulse is an error.
01:53One, two with a broken hand, on a floors is that of a broken hand, on a broken hand, on a pitiful shoulder.
01:57This is a great world of a broken hand, the fear and the fear and the fear and the fear and the fear of the room is in the case of the past.
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