Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from hosting his Gold Coast appearance on Thursday at any council-owned buildings.
A spokesperson for Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said the council has ‘zero tolerance towards public rallies or talks that promote discrimination or racism in any form.’
The decision comes after violent brawls broke out between the controversial commentator’s fans and protestors at both his Melbourne and Sydney appearances on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from hosting his Gold Coast appearance on Thursday at any council-owned buildings
A spokesperson for Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said the council has ‘zero tolerance towards public rallies or talks that promote discrimination or racism in any form’
The decision comes after violent brawls broke out between the controversial commentator’s fans and protestors (pictured) at both his Melbourne and Sydney appearances on Monday and Tuesday, respectively
Ahead of his tour, the 33-year-old was banned from appearing at government owned venues in Western Australia.
‘I don’t think he’s welcome in WA… so we will make sure that all government venues are not available to him,’ WA premier Mark McGowan said in October.
Calls were also made to revoke Mr Yiannopoulos’ invitation to speak at Parliament House as a guest of Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonjhelm.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale wrote to the Presiding Officers of the House of Representatives and the Senate requesting the retraction.
Mr Yiannopoulos said he was ‘flattered’ by the attempt to have him banned, but accused the Greens of ‘casting out the right of free speech’.
The 33-year-old’s appearance at Parliament House went ahead as planned on Tuesday, during which he launched a scathing attack on modern feminism.
Ahead of his tour, the 33-year-old was banned from appearing at government owned venues in Western Australia
Calls were also made to revoke Mr Yiannopoulos’ invitation to speak at Parliament House as a guest of Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonjhelm (pictured together)
Protesters clash with Victorian Police in Kensington in Melbourne on Monday night
Police detain a protester before Milo Yiannopoulos was set to speak to supporters in Sydney
Protesters shouted at police as they formed a line outside the Le Montage in Lilyfield, Sydney
The controversial figure labelled the movement ‘vindictive’ and ‘man-hating’ as he addressed MPs and journalists in the Mural Hall in Canberra.
‘Feminists like to say that feminism is about equality for women – about giving women equal standing with men. They have it,’ Mr Yiannopoulos said.
‘What feminism has become – since it has run out of things to complain about – is a mean, vindictive, sociopathic, man-hating movement.
‘You’d be hard pressed to find a journalist who doesn’t describe themselves as a feminist these days. But it’s very difficult to find a normal woman who does.’
Mr Yiannopoulos said Western women should be ‘enormously proud’ of the advances they had made, but said there is ‘no place left for an organised feminist movement’.
Following his speech, the 33-year-old headed to Sydney for the latest stop in his tour.
The event in Lilyfield was heavily guarded by mounted police, officers on bicycles, riot squad, marine police and police vans.
A man was hustled out of the Le Montage venue in Sydney’s Lilyfield’s show on Tuesday night
Milo Yiannopoulos had a shoe thrown at him as he spoke at his Sydney show
The rally became violent as some protesters tried to break through police surrounding the wedding reception venue. One protestor stormed the building and threw a shoe at Mr Yiannopoulos.
The black, leather slip-on shoe hurled at the stage missed its target, who stayed on message attacking left-wing political correctness and its supposed alliance with radical Islam.
Fans of the alt-right commentator were heckled by more than one hundred protesters as they entered the venue, with police having to stand between the two groups.
Seven protesters were arrested outside a wedding reception venue where he was speaking.
A protester shouts against racism before right-wing British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was set to speak in Sydney
Four people were arrested for breaching the peace, one for assaulting a police officer, one for affray and one for not complying with direction.
Banners and placards saying ‘f*** off Nazi scum’ and ‘kill yourself like Adolf Hitler’ greeted Mr Yiannopoulos he arrived to denounce Islam, feminism and cultural Marxism.
Police on horseback were called ‘animals’ and ‘racist pigs’ as they kept more than 70 youthful demonstrators to a patch of grass by the shores of the Parramatta River.
Protesters held signs including a large banner that said: ‘First they came for the Muslims and we said, ‘Not this time you f***er’.’
Inside, where 1,200 ticket holders were seated, a shoe-throwing man was hustled out by burly security guards just 20 minutes into the show attended by the Labor Party’s indigenous former national president Warren Mundine and Sky News personality Rowan Dean.
Protesters pictured at La Montage where Milo Yiannopoulos was speaking on Tuesday