Students pepper-sprayed by police at Christopher Pyne protest in Sydney CBD
A group of university students protesting at a speech by Education Minister Christopher Pyne have been pepper-sprayed by police in Sydney.
Some demonstrators were pepper-sprayed when about 40 of them tried to enter the Sydney Masonic Centre on Friday morning.
Police sprayed a number of the protesters who managed to get into the foyer of the building and were then escorted out.
Mr Pyne was inside the centre delivering the inaugural Hedley Beare Memorial Lecture to educator groups on the future of teacher education in Australia.
The address was the Government’s response to the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group report which was released earlier on Friday.
The group of protesters outside the building were demonstrating against university deregulation.
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