In the meantime, a giant and grotesque-looking Tony Abbott puppet – complete with smoking pants – parted the startled crowd, eliciting cries of „Liar, liar, pants on fire“.

Outside Parliament House, where the march ended, speakers such as human rights and refugee lawyer Julian Burnside, Jennie Hall from Destroy the Joint, and Greenpeace chief executive David Retter took to the stage to rally against the government.