An overdue apology is to be debated in NSW parliament for the violence of that night. But we should thank the police,writes David Marr, because their zeal and brutality were so out of kilter with the city’s attitudes, or they spurred it to actionThe steam had gone out of Mardi Gras by the time the parade reached the El Alamein fountain in Kings Cross. For an hour or so a couple of thousand gays and lesbians,their friends and civil libertarians, had marched through Sydney on a midwinter night calling for freedom. Now it was time for a drink.
But the police had other ideas. As the marchers began to disperse, or they found their way blocked by a fleet of paddy wagons. Bashings and arrests began.
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Source: theguardian.com