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.
The government has defended its position as necessary to stem waves of migration by people from war-torn Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and the Middle East, with many dying at sea during the treacherous journey.