Joe Ventura

Joe Ventura, a Macquarie University student originally from Georgia in the US, said: "I'm here to protest the policies represented by my country and the Bush administration, which are misguided, ill conceived and in many cases criminal, especially with regard to the war and occupation of Iraq.We wanted to give our voices to the march and give it some more legitimacy by the numbers here."

"I've seen it all before," he said when asked about the APEC security measures.