Victoria's premier has criticised pro-Palestine protesters for "choosing to politicise Christmas" after Myer cancelled an event to open its famous festive windows. The Christmas window display along Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall is a tourism hotspot for the CBD, but Myer canned its annual unveiling event planned for Sunday after a pro-Palestine group threatened a hold a protest action. "In light of recent developments and to ensure the wellbeing and safety of customers and team members, we will no longer hold an event on Bourke Street Mall for the unveiling of our Christmas windows," the retailer said on Thursday.
Myer said the window display would still be visible as planned from Sunday until early January. Premier Jacinta Allan condemned the protest plans. "We can't let these sorts of ugly protests ruin these beautiful Christmas traditions," she old ABC Radio Melbourne on Friday.
"Blocking Christmas windows is not going to change one single thing in the Middle East. "This is a really small group of people who are choosing to politicise Christmas, to politicise a beautiful event." Melbourne's Lord Mayor Nick Reece said he hoped protesters would realise they had made a mistake, urging them to change their plans.
"If there's any good that can come out of this conversation ...
it's that the protesters realise that this is a really dumb thing to do, and that they decide to do something different this weekend rather than upset the Melbourne tradition," he told ABC Radio. Activis.
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