Have you ever been beaten up or pepper sprayed?

Yeah when the confrontation flares up, you have to be wary of your surroundings so as not to get pepper sprayed. Guys from the far-right groups ask if I’m with the left and insult me, but I just tell them I’m there to document the event objectively. The ones with their heads on knew that criticising the media would make them look bad. Once, though, outside the Melbourne’s Magistrate courts, these UPF supporters called us parasites on the assumption that we worked for the ABC [laughs]. But I can’t say I felt endangered then, or any of the other times.