Students dig in as universities push to end encampments
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Pro-Palestine university protesters are defying orders to disband encampments, with students at one institution ordered to remove belongings from a building and move on. Monday marks the sixth day students have occupied the Arts West building at the University of Melbourne in Parkville. More than 15,000 students across 474 classes have been affected and alternative […]

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