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Article: SA: Protesters march on Senator Vanstone's house
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- March 25, 2005
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AAP General News (Australia)
03-25-2005
SA: Protesters march on Senator Vanstone's house
By Steve Larkin
ADELAIDE, March 25 AAP - Hundreds of refugee advocates today marched on the fortified
Adelaide home of Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone, demanding an end to the government's
policy of mandatory detention.
About 300 demonstrators converged on the leafy suburban street, to be met by lines
of police who also took up vantage points on the roof of the senator's house.
The protest was the first of weekend-long demonstrations focused on the Baxter detention
centre in South Australia's north.
Hundreds of protesters arrived near Baxter today, to be halted at a police roadblock
some 3km ...