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Speaker 1: Whether aside. I actually think police did do the right

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Speaker 1: thing saying yes to that march taking place across the

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Speaker 1: Harbor Bridge, which will now not take place tomorrow about

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Speaker 1: at a later date. My biggest problem with it would

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Speaker 1: be that it would set a precedent, but it's actually

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Speaker 1: not setting a precedent because the president was probably already

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Speaker 1: set last year by the anti Treaty principles hikoy, which

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Speaker 1: happened in November, and now as a result, we are

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Speaker 1: dealing with the predictable problem of letting one protest walk across,

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Speaker 1: which means that we have to let every major protest

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Speaker 1: walk across if they want to. So here we find ourselves.

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Speaker 1: But I do think having said all of that, I

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Speaker 1: do think it is the right thing to do, because

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Speaker 1: what it is doing is allowing a controlled protest to

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Speaker 1: take place that will achieve what the protest organizers want,

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Speaker 1: which is big publicity to draw attention to what's happening

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Speaker 1: in Gaza. Now, a protest across the Harbor Bridge is

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Speaker 1: surely a better outcome than protest is finding other ways

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Speaker 1: to get the same kind of publicity. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: week in Spain, look what's happened the protest has disrupted

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Speaker 1: the Grand Tour so many times that there is now

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Speaker 1: talk that the race may be abandoned before the final

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Speaker 1: league is finished on Sunday. I would much rather just

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Speaker 1: have a march across the harbor Bridge. A lawyer in

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Speaker 1: Auckland has just been convicted for vandalizing politicians, electorate officers

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Speaker 1: and red paint, including Christopher Luxen's. I would rather that

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Speaker 1: she just put down her paint and went for a

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Speaker 1: march across the Harbor Bridge. In a way, the real

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Speaker 1: precedent actually has been set by Sydney where they allowed

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Speaker 1: the protesters protesters to cross their harbor Bridge in August. Now,

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Speaker 1: really put yourself on the position of the police. How

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Speaker 1: could they say no when it had already happened in Sydney.

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Speaker 1: So I know, whenever this finally does happen, it's not

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Speaker 1: going to be popular. Disruptions never are popular. But all

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Speaker 1: things considered, with the available options, I think it was

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Speaker 1: the right thing to do. For more from Heather du

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