The temporary roadblocks included part of State Circle, one of the roads that surrounds Canberra's parliament house.
The prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, defended the police action, saying the traffic jams caused by police roadblocks were caused by "these people who are organising the demonstration".
Malaysian police locked down parliament with roadblocks and massive security today to prevent the opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, and his supporters from attending a key debate.
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act from Florida to Tennessee deploy regulatory roadblocks, such as refusing healthcare "navigators" access to county health departments, inspired by the "massive resistance" southern governors and legislatures used to repulse desegregation.
It wasn't just the militarised police occupation of the coalfields; the 11,000 arrests, deaths, police assaults, mass jailings and sackings; the roadblocks, fitups and false prosecutions – most infamously at the Orgreave coking plant where an orgy of police violence in June 1984 was followed by a failed attempt to prosecute 95 miners for riot on the basis of false evidence.
Last month, a near-riot in the centre of the capital, Tbilisi, complete with roadblocks made from burning tyres, aroused nasty memories of the civil war earlier in the decade, from which the country has not yet recovered.
Cars, buses and trucks had been commandeered to create 50-odd roadblocks in Jalisco and three neighbouring states; many were set alight.
Some roadblocks have been removed, some encirclements of Palestinian cities lifted, and some tanks pulled back.
Instead most would-be bombers are caught or deterred by over 550 checkpoints and roadblocks within the West Bank itself, much of which is off-limits to Palestinians (see map).
In the Niger delta, the army has been used to quell ethnic unrest, which it has done with considerable force.In the oil town of Warri, where fighting between the Ijaws and the Itsekiris has claimed scores of lives in recent months, soldiers man roadblocks amid the ruins of burned-out houses.
In a ZANU-PF stronghold, we navigate the many roadblocks with no problem.We also check out shops and talk to one of the few white commercial farmers who has managed to hang on to part of his land.
