Australian industrial relations legislation national day of protest, 2005

Organisers and some media described the 15 November rallies as the largest ever held in Australia. This claim is frequently made. It was also made about the Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations in 1970, the rallies against uranium mining in the late 1970s, rallies against the 2003 Iraq War and, in Melbourne, about the 1992 rally against the Kennett government's industrial relations legislation. In each case organisers estimated the crowd numbers at 100,000 or more, while police estimates were considerably lower. It is unlikely that any of these rallies were as large as the 15 November rally in Melbourne, which even the police estimated at 150,000 and early reports from Skynews based on aerial shots showing packed Melbourne city streets estimated as 175,000. ==References==