{"id":6046,"date":"2013-07-29T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2013-07-29T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T05:20:39","slug":"melbourne-street-protesters-marching-against-pm-rudds-new-asylum-seeker-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6046","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne street protesters marching against PM Rudd’s new asylum seeker policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recently re-instated Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd has introduced a new policy on the off-shore processing of asylum seekers coming to Australia in the run up to what appears to be a hotly contest election in the next month or two.<\/p>\n

This policy is seen as inhumane and unjust by many, particularly, Rudd’s Labor Party core voters – those with a socialist philosophy, including unionists and the Greens – so it was interesting to see their strong feelings on this very complex matter as they staged a protest march through the streets of Melbourne this weekend, although I was in the city to photograph Melbourne’s very popular annual weekend – Open House Melbourne<\/a> – where major buildings in Melbourne are open to the public and their cameras – a great time for photographers to find new material – if they can put up with the queues.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this year I ran out of time to view the buildings apart from the wonderful State Library, so here are a few of the protest march which started outside the library, these are all taken with the Micro Four Thirds<\/a> kit – the wonderful Olympus E-M5 camera<\/a> and Olympus mZD 75mm f\/1.8 lens<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The recently re-instated Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd has introduced a new policy on the off-shore processing of asylum seekers coming to Australia in the run up to what appears to be a hotly contest election in the next month or two. This policy is seen as inhumane and unjust by many, particularly, Rudd’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[255,18,494,241,14,206],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melbourne","category-photography","tag-75mm","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-melbourne","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus","tag-street-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}