Another 3 months has passed since the last major protest rally in Perth. This must be about number 37 or so for me. I was disappointed, again, at the low attendance, which was over a thousand, I estimate, and the dearth of young people. Western Australians are comfortably back asleep, while our government is sharpening its knives to further brutalise us when the orders next come through. A hundred thousand of us should have attended. What hope our children? Our speakers were superb, and Dave McSweeney, his harmonica left hand man, and his daughter, treated us to classic songs to send us home.