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In Sydney, hundreds gathered in the pouring rain on Sunday calling for the end of Islamophobia in the country that produced Friday’s alleged killer.

Umbrellas went up outside the New Zealand consulate and the crowd spilled into what undercover nooks there were, as the speakers told the media and politicians to look at themselves. It had been raining for hours and it did not stop. There was a minute’s silence, before Dalya Ayoub, a Palestinian-New Zealander, spoke.

“We have been dehumanised for decades,” she said. “My daughters are constantly being reminded every day through the media to go back to where they came from. The Nazis have to go. White supremacy has to go. Not us.”

The Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi said the focus should be on “our so-called mainstream politicians” like Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison, both former immigration ministers.

“I haven’t forgotten the years of race-baiting,” she said. “This is the time to be as loud as we can – we have to keep the media accountable and make sure politicians who do spread hate and bigotry are kicked out. They don’t deserve to be there.”