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Sydney Mardi Gras to vote on banning police from parade

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Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras members are to vote on a plan to ban police and prison services from taking part in the parade.

It’s already set to be a very different Mardi Gras in 2021, with coronavirus forcing organizers to change location and crowd management.

But activist group Pride in Protest wants to force a longer-term change in the vote tomorrow (5 December), reports the Australian Associated Press in The Guardian.

The motion calls on Mardi Gras to ban police and associated organisations from having floats in all its future parades. It states: ‘This is in recognition of the immense violence perpetrated by the police and corrective services towards First Nations communities who are over-policed and over-incarcerated, particularly

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