12 February 2015, 05:35 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Police have used pepper spray against a group of students protesting in front of the Sydney Masonic Centre on Friday morning, where Australian Education Minister Christopher Pyne was giving a speech, ABC News reports.
The students chanted "no cuts, no fees, no corporate universities", according to ABC. Some of the protesters managed to get inside the Masonic Centre and were pepper-sprayed by police, who were trying to remove them from the building.
"This is not a police state, we have the right to demonstrate," the students chanted as they were escorted out.
One of protesters told ABC that "students are against his [Pyne's] higher education reforms" and that they are determined to continue their fight.
According to the protesters, more students plan to march out on March 25.
