PARLIAMENTARY RIOTS

摘要

The riot at Parliament House on Monday, 19 August, 1996 was described by Bob Halverson, the then speaker of the House of Representatives, as "... one of the most shameful episodes in the nation's history." That riot, and the one the following day at nearby Old Parliament House, proved to be two days of violence that shocked even the most experienced members of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), many of whom had previously attended large scale public disturbances such as the AIDEX anti-armaments protests of 1991, the storming of Old Parliament House by protestors in 1982 and the violent anti-apartheid riots of the early 1970s.