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While many people in Melbourne, Australia slept in after the city’s all-night art event, White Night<\/a>, residents of Sydney took to the streets to fight for the right to stay out all night.<\/p>\n

More than 15,000 people, according to group Keep Sydney Open, converged in Sydney’s city centre to take a stand against the state’s controversial lockout laws on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The lockout laws were introduced<\/a> in 2014 by the New South Wales government to curb Sydney’s alleged alcohol-fuelled violence problem<\/a>. The laws prohibit patrons from entering licensed venues after 1:30 a.m. and serving alcohol after 3 a.m. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While many people in Melbourne, Australia slept in after the city’s all-night art event, White Night, residents of Sydney took to the streets to fight for the right to stay out all night. More than 15,000 people, according to group … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,1397,1399,1398,998],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-lockout-laws","tag-nightlife","tag-protest","tag-sydney"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}