article_snippet.sent: In Melbourne, the meeting place for such public debate was Yarra Bank, a pocket of land nestled between what today is Birrarung Marr and the Rod Laver Arena.
article_snippet.sent: Anti-conscription demonstrations saw up to 100,000 people gather on the dusty banks of dirty brown Yarra River.
article_snippet.sent: Riotous scenes at Yarra Bank", headlines around the nation proclaimed, when a demonstration organized by the Women's Peace Army in the week before the 1916 referendum turned nasty and returned servicemen began to attack female speakers.