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Hundreds of people protesting vaccination mandates have descended on 1 William Street after marching through the Brisbane CBD.Credit:Matt Dennien

One protester was seen waving an Australian flag upside down and another held aloft a Eureka flag,while the action prompted the next-door Queensland Parliament to lock its gates.

The group stopped outside 1 William Street hoping to speak to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and booed when it became clear she would not meet with the crowd,before chants of “you serve us”.

Members of the group insisted they would not move on until someone came down from 1 William Street to accept a statement from their leader.

Some protesters had earlier clambered onto the Parliament fence as others shouted:“stop protecting the paedophiles”.

People march through Brisbane’s CBD from King George Square to Parliament House and One William Street in protest of the Queensland government’s vaccine mandates.Credit:Matt Dennien

The crowd held signs rejecting “medical apartheid” and “coercion”.

Police were at one stage forced to step in between elements of the crowd and a Seven News crew who were cornered,with protesters singling out the team amid shouts of “tell the truth”.

Sections of the crowd yelled at bystanders to take off their masks and at one stage chanted “free Victoria”.

Many live-streamed or recorded the march on their phones.

The protest leader,part of a group behind several other protests against government “so-called” pandemic measures,read from a prepared statement calling on the government to drop its plans to bar unvaccinated people from dining in at cafes and attending live music events after December 17,or once the state hits an 80 per cent full-vaccination rate.

“Send someone down or we ain’t moving,” he said.

“Until someone comes down to accept this letter,we’re not going anywhere.”

However,the group moved on later in the afternoon.

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