Occupy Wall Street protest spreads to Australia

Occupy Wall Street on Saturday spread to similar protests across Australia's major cities, involving thousands of Australians. In Sydney, about 500 people set up camp in city center to protest against corruption and corporate greed. In Melbourne, hundreds of demonstrators rallied in central business district holding up banners reading "you can't eat money" and "we are the 99 percent". They said they planed to camp out for days, and maybe weeks. Elsewhere in Australia, about 100 people moved in to the city center of Brisbane, with Occupy Brisbane organizer Thomas Brookes said the group was expecting more than 2,000 people to participate in the demonstration. Similar protest also started in Adelaide and Perth on Saturday. According to Melbourne organizer Nick Carson, Australia may have escaped the global financial crisis, but there are still serious issues affecting this nation. "I think people want real democracy," he told reporters in Melbourne on Saturday. "They don't want corporate influence over their politicians. They want their politicians to be accountable. The protests against widening income disparity this week has spread across the Asia-Pacific region and London of Britain