‘Crossed a line’: students threatened with police action over pro-Palestine sit-in at University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne cancels classes as activists at Deakin defy directives on encampments
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Students occupying a University of Melbourne building have been threatened with disciplinary action and police action", as at least three other universities seek to crack down on pro-Palestine encampments.
In a video released more than 24 hours after activists crossed a line" by starting a sit-in at the Arts West building, the University of Melbourne's deputy vice-chancellor, Prof Michael Wesley, said management's patience was now at an end".
Wesley said some protesters could be disciplined under the university's codes of conduct and may face police action.
If those codes of conduct are contravened, as they have been now, the people who are carrying them out will face disciplinary action and police action, if necessary," Wesley said.