Situation Update to Intelligence Report 002/2024
ANZAC Day demonstrations and subsequent online rhetoric
(U) This platform previously published an intelligence product detailing how Issue Motivated Groups (IMG) intended to conduct demonstrations on ANZAC Day, with the intent to focus on the current conflict occurring in Gaza, and diminish the reverence and history associated with ANZAC Day, citing their protest against QUOTE the glorification of war END QUOTE.1
(U) These demonstrations occurred, with several similar rallies occurring across university campuses, which included the University of Melbourne. This platform assessed physical confrontations were probable to occur; there were reported clashes between protestors and on-duty Victorian Police officers, after the marches began at the Victorian Parliament and moved to the State Library according to the Herald Sun.
(U) The second & third-order effects also detailed within the previous report’s assessment has already begun to see the first indicators manifesting throughout the Australian public, most prominently online. The social media p…