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QLD:Last-ditch push to save park slated for Olympic arena

Demonstrators have returned to the site of a planned Olympics stadium as the countdown begins for bulldozers to turn sods at the contested park.

Tensions boiled over on Friday as residents of an on-site tent embassy were forcibly moved on from Brisbane's Victoria Park.

Five people were arrested, including a man tackled to the ground by officers, in what critics described as a surprise raid by police and council staff.

But it was a tamer affair on Sunday with no clashes reported when hundreds of people rallied at the sprawling park in the city's north.

Bulldozers are expected to begin clearing the way for construction of the $3.6 billion 2032 Olympics main arena as early as Monday.

Indigenous elders have declared the park a place of significance to many First Nations peoples and are calling for their concerns to be heard.

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