Pro Palestine Protests at Port Botany Lead to Arrest of Unionists

Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi delivered a speech in which she said the police were ‘used to intimidate, to scare us’

Supporters gather for a rally to free Palestine on the steps of the Victorian parliament in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 15, 2023. Sam Tabone/Getty Images

A protest by a group of Pro-Palestinian supporters over the arrival of an Israeli cargo ship at Port Botany in Sydney ended with a swathe of arrests despite the union involved saying the gathering was peaceful.

Over a hundred protestors including several representatives and members from the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) gathered at Patrick Terminal at the port in anticipation of a cargo ship owned by Zim Integrated Shipping Services due to unload goods.