SYDNEY—More than 1,000 people joined a rally here March 8 to protest police brutality and harassment against participants in the annual gay Mardi Gras parade a week earlier. Demonstrators marched to the Surry Hills police station. After the Mardi Gras parade March 2, Jamie Jackson, 18, and Bryn Hutchinson, 32, a gay rights activist, were beaten and arrested by cops. A number of other participants were publicly stripped-searched by police. The rally called for dropping charges against Jackson and Hutchinson for allegedly assaulting police officers, and for the cops involved to be charged.

—LINDA HARRIS