If the world is not watching certainly Melburnians were!

The City Square was awash with demonstrators, police and then on-lookers who filled the outskirts of the Square spilling onto Swanston Street. Office workers were coming out of the offices in droves to view what was happening in their City Square. And it was a disturbing scene of force and counter force...hardly very edifying for the world's most liveable city!

Protesting is an essential counterbalance to feelings of inequity and social justice and our inability to deal with such events is likely to lead to civil disobedience borne of frustration that may have consequences beyond what we would have hoped. We live on a wire and if we stretch it too tight it is likely to break!