ANU rally to protest School of Music cuts - photo gallery
If you didn't get to be at one of the best rallies ever, you can get a flavour of it here.
ANU School of Music rally
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The rally began with bands playing all over campus, showing the depth and breadth of skill produced by the School.
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Brass band gathers up protesters and leads them to Union Court.
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Brass band and drummers and dancing, rhythmically clapping protesters.
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Gary France drumming up the intensity.
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Are we having fun yet? Oh, yes.
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Jazz band leader adds swing to the chant of 'Save Our School'.
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Musicians of very different styles join in protest.
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The NTEU labelled the VC's planned ANU cuts 'Cold, not bold.' The meme has been taken further.
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Music School choir enchants the protestors.
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The drumming, chanting crowd fell silent to listen to the exquisite singing of a School of Music choir.
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NTEU-banner-holding protester masked in the spirit of festive protest.
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ACT NTEU Secretary Stephen Darwin inspired the crowd with a fiery rejection of cuts to the School of Music.
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Greens MLA Caroline Le Couteur addresses the rally.
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Federal police attended but stayed in the background of a peaceful rally.
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Protestors listening to speeches of support for the School of Music (Not, as this photo might suggest, worshipping a tree).
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It was a huge rally of about a thousand people.
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Jack Hobbs, ANU Students' Association's Music Rep, addressing the crowd.
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Malba Barahona carrying the NTEU banner in the march to the Chancery.
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Annie Carroll carrying the other end of the banner!
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Yes, we're definitely having fun now.
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Protestors dancing outside the Chancelry.
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ANUSA President Dallas Proctor heading into the Chancelry (with Music Reps Jack Hobbs and Yasmin Masri) to present a petition signed by over 21,000 people.
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