I am in Sydney & the ANZAC Memorial (like @AWMemorial & the Shrine etal) was built as a shrine for our war dead & esp the families of those who served, whose loved ones in the Great War had no grave or whose grave the families could never visit. These are thus very solemn places. 
Now, reasonable people can disagree about protests. I have been in one, for the @SSFCRABBITOHS reinstatement to the NRL competition. As Souths were and are a 1908 Foundation Club, our exclusion raised many passions, but none that required violence or the desecration of a shrine.
According to Captain Stephen Bowater of the Melbourne Shrine, interviewed by @ljayes, yesterday's protesters did not just use the Shrine for protest, necessitating police responses, but also used it in a gross manner that required members of the public to go there & clean it up.
Most Australians will have conflicting views on State Govts & their performance in this pandemic. On any view, we are not governed particularly well. We have not all been in this together. BUT there is NO excuse for using the Shrine as a political stage, for any cause, ever.
Everyone involved in yesterday's muppetry, shenanigans, and performance artistry, at the Shrine, often as some form of political grift, should hang their heads in deserved shame. Hopefully the Victorian Police prosecute them under the appropriate laws & health orders.
Well said RSL Victoria
A very well done to @ljayes for interviewing Captain Stephen Bowater, of Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance, in respect of the Shrine's importance to all Australians, and yesterday's tragic & appalling events. Well done to those who cleansed the Shrine.
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