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they are to be escorted outside and released.
    Arrests are to be carried out only where no alternative is to be found … It is essential that we prevent any unseemly behaviour such as Police fighting with demonstrators etc. within sight of the Heads of State — every means must be taken to peacefully avoid such an occurrence. 6
    Despite the growing irritation of Jacques Stoupel, the atmosphere between police and protesters seems fairly convivial throughout the day. Jacques’s annoyance stems from a number of banner-wielding bearded types blocking the entrance and one flag-waving joker who shoves his placard into one of the upright cylinders through which the rope bordering the red carpet is looped. The police then move the barriers further back from the roped entrance, pushing the demonstrators further away.
    Jacques keeps cleaning up, noting the bin is full by afternoon.
    The bin continues its star turn — Stoupel observes a female protester resting her bum on it, holding a cup above her head. Around 11.30 am, Kevin O’Meara Gleeson, who has taken his kids to town for the day, also sits on the bin to watch the passing dignitaries. He also notices that it’s full. 7 Just after midday, Edward Patching, the Foreign Affairs liaison officer to the Western Samoan delegation, comes out to watch the arrival of the prime ministers. He immediatelyobserves that the two bins outside the Hilton ‘near the kerb and between the red carpet and the police barriers, were full of rubbish’. Patching is appalled: ‘I thought that this was unsightly and not in the good interests of the government to have garbage protruding through these cowls, in view of the heads of state’. Taking immediate action, Patching heads over to the middle bin at the side of the red carpet and forces ‘the garbage in through the cowl’. However, owing to the ‘compactness’ of the garbage within, it springs back ‘to just below the lip of the cowl’. He does the same thing to the bin next to it. In this endeavour he is more successful as this one is not ‘as compacted as the other’. 8
    Anthony Cuthbertson, a signwriter and amateur photographer, observes that around 2.30 pm the middle bin starts to overflow. He also sees the demonstrators and their placards: ‘Free all political prisoners in NZ’ and ‘Piggy Muldoon’. At one point the protester Carl Maltby stands a sign up in the bin: Politicians are the pus of a suppurating society. Cuthbertson adds that he believes that after the barriers were put up ‘a number of the demonstrators used the garbage tin as an excuse to enter the restricted area’. He then adds, ‘I made particular note of the garbage tin during the afternoon, thinking to myself that the overflowing garbage was an eyesore with visiting dignitaries due to arrive.’ 9
    Anthony need not have worried unduly. In order to avoid the demonstrators there is a last-minutedecision to take New Zealand’s Prime Minister Muldoon (who arrives at approximately 2 pm) and India’s Prime Minister Desai (who arrives around 4.20 pm) in through the Pitt Street entrance. It’s only when Jacques rolls up the red carpet and starts to pack up that the demonstrators realise they have been duped and have missed their targets.
    At Sydney airport, members of the Ananda Marga present Desai with a petition protesting the imprisonment of their leader, Baba. We know this from the grainy surveillance photographs taken before and during the event. In them, one figure is strikingly distinct — a tall willowy man with a thick black beard and a turban. He looms above the other Margiis at the airport. 10 His name is Abhiik Kumar. He is the spiritual leader of the Ananda Marga throughout Australasia. In the archive photographs someone has drawn a circle around his head. He is a man Detective Inspector Norm Sheather will come to know very well in the coming months.
    By 5 pm