<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police are investigating whether left-wing counter-protesters' violent actions at a </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/melbourne" rel="" target="" title="Melbourne"><span>Melbourne</span></a><span> rally, where </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/police" rel="" target="" title="police"><span>police</span></a><span> were pelted by rocks, were pre-planned.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (CARF) held a meeting at the University of Melbourne ahead of a </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-victoria-police-assaulted-protests-australia/1eb44402-0466-4438-8340-ee17b498562e" rel="" target="" title="CBD counter-protest challenging anti-immigration marchers"><span>CBD counter-protest challenging anti-immigration marchers</span></a><span> at the March for Australia in October.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>During the meeting, speakers presented a slideshow suggesting protesters be "militant" in their ideology and "aggressive to the fascists" during the march.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-presenter-livinia-nixon-step-down/225399d6-0afb-41fa-a389-a0316e8dd319" rel="" target="" title="'The right time': Livinia Nixon signs off from 9News weather after 21 years"><strong><span>'The right time': Livinia Nixon signs off from 9News weather after 21 years</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A diagram on one of the slides read "inside you are two bricks", with two speech bubbles below reading "throw me at a cop" and "use me to build community".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Violence erupted as the two groups clashed during the October 19 protest.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Items, including rocks, glass and rotten, were hurled at police.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/protest-melbourne-police-probe-whether-protester-violence-was-preplanned-during-oncampus-meeting/bd7283c1-1b4a-4e74-b907-91c64c39084f" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Two officers were hospitalised with injuries sustained from the clash.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A CARF spokesperson said the presentation was delivered by an international speaker from the UK, not a group member.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"CARF has never encouraged protesters to throw bricks at police," the spokesperson said in a statement.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Individualistic violence does nothing to challenge the far-right, even if it is frustrating when the police facilitate fascist marches through our streets."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Deputy Premier Ben Carroll labelled the march a "disgusting, premeditated ambushing of Victoria Police".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"To come into the city with rocks, with projectiles, to ambush police...there's got to be zero tolerance for that," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/ben-austin-ferntree-gully-cricket-club-oval-painted/8d48d8ec-397a-4f09-9a65-de7b28bbf488" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Cricket club's touching tribute to late teen after training tragedy</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In addition to a police investigation, the University of Melbourne is reviewing the circumstances around the meeting held on campus.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It says the event was not endorsed by the university and promised to take "appropriate action".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The revelation comes as calls continue to grow for a protest permit system in Victoria, like those used interstate.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"If she was serious about ending these protests, Jacinta Allan would have stopped them," opposition spokesperson Matthew Guy said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But Allan insists Victoria Police has the powers necessary to control crowds adequately.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We've seen in New South Wales, we've seen in Sydney that a permit system has not stopped people who come to protest, not to protest peacefully," Allan said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This is the advice of the chief commissioner... that this mechanism is not something that's appropriate here for Victoria."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div 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