Student activist Cherish Kuehlmann went to court on March 1 to challenge her bail conditions that聽prevent her from entering Sydney鈥檚 CBD.
Kuehlmann was arrested at midnight on February 18, after attending a protest for housing justice at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia on Martin Place with the student group 鈥淕et a Room鈥.
She was charged with aggravated trespass and released on conditions that barred her from coming within two kilometres of the CBD.
Activists supporting her included colleagues from Get a Room, Socialist Alternative, 350.org, Socialist Alliance, 91自拍论坛, NSW Greens MP for Newtown Jenny Leong, Student Representative Council at the University of Sydney, Community Action for Rainbow Rights, National Union of Students and the National Tertiary Education Union.
Kuehlmann said there was a real need for house justice, and that 鈥渢he real crime is that housing is used as a vehicle for the accumulation of wealth by a privileged few鈥.
Leong spoke about her own experience of police harassment during the campaign against the use of sniffer dogs. April Holcombe spoke about state and police oppression of LGBTIQ people.
The court dropped Kuehlmann鈥檚 bail conditions.