region street, a shopping district this time of night, this time of year. it s very crowded. she told us that the proteprote were throwing rocks and breaking windows on that street. backtrack and explain why all this came to such a head this evening. reporter: sure. the students were out because there was a vote in parliament. part of a large-scale budget cut proposal for the government. it would essentially nearly triple the fees that university students would have to pay from $5,000 to $14,000. and these students have been protesting in recent weeks hoping to maybe turn around the vote so it wouldn t pass. today they heard it passed. we really saw a change in tone among the students being hopeful they had changed the tide politically to then being resigned they hadn t. we saw anger replace the hopefulness. there was a bit more violence. some of the students throwing rocks. a lot of pushing and kicking from police. this is quite a distance away from parliament square. it