The rally was organized by The True Blue Crew, an anti-immigration group, the broadcaster added.
According to the media outlet, around 30 police officers arrived to ensure order.
The protesters claim that a 75-lot development being built in Melton South is a Muslim housing estate, according to The Age, Melbourne's daily newspaper. The claim has been denied by the authorities.
Melbourne is one of Australia's two largest cities, with approximately four million people according to the country's 2011 census. The number of city residents born outside Australia constituted almost one third of the population in 2006. Surprisingly, only 3.2 percent of the city's residents as of 2011 were Muslim; Muslims only accounted for 1.9 percent of the country's population that year.
The reason for much of Australia's antipathy to Islam and particularly Islamic refugees is due to criminality within the country's Lebanese community. Immigrants left Lebanon for the country in the lead-up to the Lebanese civil war, which began in 1975, and in the following 10 years, according to The Australian. These new arrivals became associated with street gangs and violence in Sydney. More recently, Muslim Lebanese Australians have become associated with terrorism.
