A Victoria Police spokeswoman confirmed a 25-year-old Bayswater man was charged with incitement because he allegedly encouraged people to breach the Chief Health Officer’s directions at Richmond on September 18.

The man was bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on April 11, 2022, the spokeswoman said.

Mr Mclean also describes himself on his website as “an Australian entrepreneur and innovator” and a libertarian activist with a background in physics and computational science.

Melbourne’s anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination protest movement has continued since the September 18 protests.

On Monday, September 20, there were violent scenes when a group of construction workers, and others angry about a state government closure of worksites and vaccination mandate clashed, with union officials.

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The following day a large, rolling protest swept across the city, and protesters brought traffic on the West Gate Bridge to a standstill.

On Wednesday, hundreds of protesters occupied Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance for several hours, and police shot at them with non-lethal rounds.

Scattered attempts at protests since then were quelled by police. On Saturday, protesters attempted to gather in St Kilda, but hundreds of police moved swiftly on demonstrators, making scores of arrests.

Protestors promised to rally “every day” but took Sunday as a “rest day”. Attempts on Monday to rally again at parks across the city fizzled out quickly. One small gathering of people held anti-vaccination signs in North Fitzroy’s Edinburgh Gardens, watched on by dozens of police, but the group swiftly dispersed.

With Clay Lucas

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