After the woman tried to alert nearby media, she was thrown to the ground. Media were told if they printed pictures of this police violence, they would risk having their Olympic accrediation removed. On the 14th July, Isabel Coe, a veteran and elder of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra established an off shoot of the original Embassy, in Victoria Park across the road from the University of Sydney. The Victoria Park Embassy will be used to inform visitors and the media during the Olympics about the suppression of Indigenous rights by past and present governments. We encourage all supporters of Indigenous Rights to contact the South Sydney City Council stating their support for the Victoria Park Tent Embassy.
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Anti olympic activists should know that ORTA has sought an exemption from the Disability Discrimination Act to enable it to commandeer all accessible buses from Qld, NSW and Victoria during the olympics and paralympics. They've been knocked back by the Victorian equivalent of the Anti Discrimination Board, the Qld decision is pending. The truly bad news for people with disabilty is that the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has allowed their exemption. This is outrageous. An appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is being considered.