Women paint slogans

Press, 26 April 1979, Page 2

Women paint slogans

PA Sydney A group of women swept through Sydney and its suburbs early on Anzac Day painting anti-rape slogans at Returned Services League chibs and at a railway station. They defaced the walls and footpaths of at least three R.S.L. clubs.

Vandalism was reported at the City of Sydney R.S.L. club in George Street, the PaddingtonWoollahra R.S.L. club in Oxford Street, and the Maroubra R.S.L. in Anzac Parade.

The women spraypainted the words, “Remember women raped in war.”

Walls by the steps at the Town Hall station were sprayed, and posters with the same words were pasted up in the Devonshire Street tunnel, near the central railway station.

The police said that at one stage 30 women were driving through the city and suburbs to a coordinated plan. Cleaners had the writing off the walls of most sites well before dawn.

Two young men tried to stop the women painting slogans in George Street A scuffle broke out and the men and women splashed one another with paint.

The women drove to the nearby Central Police Station to complain of the

attack, and the young men arrived at the station soon after, to report the vandalism.

The police arrested four of the women, aged 19, 23, 28, and 30. Each was hcarged on two counts of having caused malicious damage. After the vandalism was reported, police Anzac Day patrols were stepped up.

Young Polynesians waving anti-capitalist banners became involved in a scuffle with war veterans at the Auckland Anzac Day dawn parade, reports the NZPA. The protesters declared they were at the City’s war memorial to pay tribute to those Maoris who had died in “capitalist wars.”