- Title: AUSTRALIA: PREMIER HAROLD HOLT AT ELECTION RALLY
- Date: 26th November 1966
- Summary: 1. MS DEMONSTRATORS OUTSIDE AS HOLT WALKS TOWARD TOWN HALL 0.17 2. CU POLICE CONTROLLING THEM 0.25 3. MS INTERIOR TOWN HALL 0.30 4. MS DEMONSTRATORS INSIDE (TWO SHOTS) 0.36 5. MCU HOLT ADDRESSING 0.41 6. MS OFFICIAL ASKS DEMONSTRATORS TO BE QUIET 0.46 7. MCU DEMONSTRATORS SHOUTING (FOUR SHOTS) 0.59 8. MS HOLT SPEAKS
- Embargoed: 11th December 1966 12:00
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- Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
- Reuters ID: LVA2LIBJV85NPLFZITG1MCFVYLU8
- Story Text: A GENERAL ELECTION IS NOW ON IN AUSTRALIA: IT STARTED TODAY (SATURDAY). RECENTLY, ANGRY DEMONSTRATORS AT ROCKDALE IN SYDNEY, JOSTLED AUSTRALIAN PREMIER HAROLD HOLT, WHEN HE ARRIVED FOR AN ELECTION RALLY.
IT WAS ONE OF THE ROWDIEST RECEPTIONS.
SIX MEN WERE ARRESTED DURING THE DEMONSTRATIONS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE ROCKDALE TOWN HALL. LATER, THEY WERE CHARGED WITH OFFENCES RANGING FROM ASSAULTING POLICE AND TEARING POLICE CLOTHING, TO OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR. THEY APPEARED IN COURT ON THURSDAY (NOV. 24).
INSIDE THE HALL, SUPPORTERS OF MR. HOLT OUT-NUMBERED AND OUT-SHOUTED HIS OPPONENTS. THE JEERS OF HIS CRITICS WERE DROWNED BY THE CHEERS OF HIS SUPPORTERS. AND WITH THE NOISE FROM BOTH SIDES, VERY LITTLE OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY WAS HEARD CLEARLY BY THE AUDIENCE.
WHEN MR. HOLT LEFT THE RALLY, A SIMILAR INCIDENT OCCURRED. POLICE AND OFFICIALS FORMED A GUARD AROUND HIM AS HE STRUGGLED TO HIS CAR, BUT MANY OF THE DEMONSTRATORS GOT CLOSE ENOUGH TO BUMP AND JOSTLE HIM. AS HE GOT INTO THE CAR, IT WAS POCKED AND THUMPED BY SOME OF THE CROWD. THREE POLICEMEN RECEIVED MINOR CUTS AND BRUISES FROM THE MELEE.
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