Thousands of people across Australia attended Black Lives Matter protests on Saturday wearing masks and practising social distancing amid warnings from state leaders to call off the events on fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections. The rallies, dominated by a heavy police presence, were mostly peaceful. “There have been people like my dad and Aunty Mingelly who have been pushing for change since they were my age – you know that was 50 years ago,” Jacinta Taylor, an organiser of the protest in Perth, told the rally.
