Crowd sizes

You know, I’ve just real­ised some­thing very sad.

Only 40,000 people showed for the Sydney IR rally. in 1988, as part of the Sec­ond­ary Stu­dents Coali­tion, four other high school stu­dents and I (with some help from the Teach­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion of NSW) got 100,000 people out against a statewide change that only affected Year 11 and 12 students.

These laws affect every work­ing adult in the country.

Whatever happened to people’s commitment?

EDIT: This is not a per­sonal com­ment on the attend­ance or oth­er­wise of anyone read­ing. It is a dis­cus­sion about gen­eral attend­ance. There are always people who can’t attend because they’re sick/they slept through their alarm/their job is abso­lutely critical.