There’s a whiff of les gllets jaunes in the Melbourne air today. That and the smell of flares.

For more than four hours protestors have been marching across the CBD. One group several hundred strong now appears to be occupying across the West Gate Bridge (a site of huge significance to Victorian construction workers, given how many of their colleagues were killed or injured when it collapsed during construction) after shutting down Greater Melbourne’s main artery, the City Link tollway.