Asylum-seeker activists target Australian parliament
SYDNEY - Australia's parliament was hit by a second day of protests by anti-offshore detention centre activists Thursday with two people abseiling down the building to unfurl a banner reading "close the bloody camps now".
It came a day after some 30 people disrupted parliamentary Question Time, chanting "close the camps" and "where is your moral compass?" with several supergluing their hands to the public viewing gallery railings.
Both of the protests were organised by grassroots organisation Whistleblowers Activists and Citizens Alliance. No charges have yet been brought against those who took part.