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As military actions against Iraq entered into the fifth day on Monday, there is no indication that the wave of anti-war demonstrations in Australia will calm down.
About 400 aboriginal Australians stormed the Parliament House in Canberra, demanding Prime Minister John Howard bring Australian troops home from the Gulf war, the Australian Associated Press reported.
The report said the aboriginal demonstrators tried to take smoking brances into the Parliament House and a line of police with arms formed a barricade outside the main doors. Inside the House, Howard was targeted by anti-war protesters in the gallery.
A man was reportedly arrested Monday morning after throwing a red paint bomb onto the wall of the prime minister's official residence in Canberra.
In Sydney, anti-war protest organizer, Walk Against the War Coalition, urged Australians to boycott Monday night's coverage ofthe Oscars. "By switching off your televisions ... (tonight) you will be sending a message to the White House that you do not embrace this United States," a statement of the organization said.
A defense force spokesman said only positive messages had been sent to the 2,000 troops fighting against Iraq.
(Xinhua News Agency March 24, 2003)
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