Melbourne, Australia Australia (CNN) – Christmas Australia’s Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs has threatened to revoke any visa that catches any violators of the rules created to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the country, after hundreds attended a beach party at Sydney’s Bronte Beach on Christmas Day.
Peter Hannam, a local journalist who spoke at the event at 5 p.m., said a large number of people in attendance were speaking aloud in British accents.
“These are the same people who gather every summer at Bondi Beach or Bronte or somewhere else because they want to show their Northern Hemisphere friends that it’s Christmas and we’re in the summer.”
Officers were eventually forced to disperse the incident with state riot police deployed to help disperse the crowd.
A 25-year-old man was sent a court appearance notice for failing to follow the “move forward” direction, police said. “The rest of the people followed him and left the area,” police said in a statement.
“Visitors to Australia Australia need to be very clear that if they violate public health orders they are threatening the health and safety of Austral Australians and the federal government will look into their visas,” he said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on December 29.
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