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7.32am BST
Some more detail from a University of Sydney academic on today’s protest that was disrupted by riot police.
Riot police were literally just roaming the Quad lawns grabbing people, well after things had dispersed. Never seen anything like it. https://t.co/d12MmQrzFs
Yesterday I had 20+ students in a room for a tutorial. But today, Michael Spence call the riot squad onto campus to shut down a rally against fee hikes, on the grounds that it exceeded the 20 person limit. “Let’s pick ’em off one by one” was what I heard one of the cops say. https://t.co/vHSgNpQf0b
7.18am BST
The New Zealand government has activated national security systems after the nation’s stock exchange was disrupted by cyber-attacks for a fourth day.
NZX Ltd had to halt trading on Friday morning after crashing due to network connectivity issues, but it has since resumed trading.
Related: New Zealand stock exchange disrupted by fourth ‘offshore’ cyber attack
