A Facebook group started by a former family cooking show contestant was the driving force behind the dramatic anti-lockdown protests on the weekend.
On May 3, Panayides organised a protest that only a handful attended. The group filmed as police told them they were violating restrictions, and the footage was shared to the group and beyond, again gaining thousands of shares and comments.In the lead up to the weekend of protests, Panayides livestreamed frequently about the need to protest and"act". Members discussed their plans to attend andor resist attempts to stop them protesting.
"This is not a group for socialising," he said."I don’t care if you’re a 5G person, you come from QAnon, you’re a mad super believer in all this stuff that’s happening, or you’re just new to the group, you’ve just had your eyes open, you have to understand, we’re a mixed bag." On Saturday, some of the group’s New South Wales members attended a protest at state parliament in Sydney organised by another small group, Exercise My Rights. Police told BuzzFeed News a group of 40 people were given move on orders after they didn't comply with social distancing laws. Two protesters were arrested for failing to comply, including a mother, carrying a protest sign with anti-lockdown and sovereign citizen messages, who was forcibly separated from her crying child by police.
A video of the mother’s dramatic arrest went viral on Facebook and Twitter. The video was shared by far right figures such as Avi Yemini and Katie Hopkins, and publications like Gateway Pundit, which sympathetically covered the mother’s protests. Panayides spoke about the video at length on Saturday evening, and posts about the protests to come on Sunday received huge amounts of engagement.
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