The Night of the Twenty-Ninth

Over one thousand people filled chapman and lounsdale the two parks in front of the federal court house and the justice centre. The group of mams, now in matching yellow tea shirts and helmets, numbered in hundreds. Medics came through handing out tear gas wipes and eye flesh bottles. And the mobs linked arms before moving to form a living wall facing the fence recently erected around the mark o hatfield court house. After more than an hour of chanting and singing, answered by scattered pepper balls and flash bangs from the feds, a few sections of the fence were removed by protesters; soon the whole fence came down.