On the evening of 24 May 2016, residents from Sydney's former Leichhardt, Marrickville and Ashfield local councils – undemocratically terminated by the Baird Liberal Government – struck back, closing down the first meeting of the dictatorially-administered "Inner West Council".
This body is to be governed by Richard Pearson, a hand-picked former deputy-director of NSW's planning department at the time when the department was rubber-stamping the retrogressive WestConnex tollway proposal and plans for resumption and redevelopment of vast areas of Sydney for high-rise apartments.
In this video we see hundreds of residents rally outside of the Marrickville Admin Centre and then enter the chamber of the former, democratically-elected Marrickville Council, and close down the first meeting of the undemocratic state-government imposed administration.
This incident has generated a great deal of controversy in the mainstream media but this is the fullest video documentary coverage.
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