It was a typically chilly Melbourne afternoon when we arrived at the NAB building in Docklands to attend Christopher Pyne’s book launch. Instead of dully walking through the corporate doors to be greeted by glowing faces at the registration desk we were stopped by the much angrier faces of dozens of so-called ‘student’ protesters.
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Matthew Lesh is a politics student in Melbourne and Victorian Branch General Secretary of the National Union of Students.
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