Australians at Melbourne’s Anti-Immigration Rally Speak to the New York Times

Street interviews conducted by NYT journalists at Melbourne's anti-immigration protests, Melbourne, Australia, August–September 2025. Featuring Protesters and counter-protesters at anti-immigration rallies in Melbourne, Australia; New York Times journalists conducting interviews. Australia in 2025 saw its anti-immigration movement go from fringe to front page in less than eighteen months — a trajectory that closely paralleled the UK and Germany.

Who: Protesters and counter-protesters at anti-immigration rallies in Melbourne, Australia; New York Times journalists conducting interviews

What: Street interviews conducted by NYT journalists at Melbourne's anti-immigration protests. Includes both rally participants explaining why they oppose immigration levels, and counter-protesters explaining their objections to the rally.

Where: Melbourne, Australia

When: August–September 2025

Why: Australia in 2025 saw its anti-immigration movement go from fringe to front page in less than eighteen months — a trajectory that closely paralleled the UK and Germany. The Melbourne rally footage is significant not because of the size of the protests but because of who is in them: working-class Australians, many of them Labor voters a generation ago, showing up to protest a Labor government over immigration. The NYT sending journalists to interview both sides — rally attendees explaining their reasoning and counter-protesters explaining theirs — produces something more useful than most cable coverage of the same moment.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojoEOBi806M

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