Woman is arrested outside Anthony Albanese's office - after he was called out for surrendering it to a pro-Palestinian protest camp

A woman has been arrested for alleged trespassing in Anthony Albanese's office as it continue to be barricaded by protesters.

Sarah Shaweesh recorded the arrest of Instagram as she introduced herself as a local constituent who lives in Marrickville, inner west Sydney, where Mr Albanese's has his electorate office.

But she claims in a video clip that the 'police and the AFP are threatening to arrest me because I went into the office today to ask about my family’s declined visa application to come here from Gaza'.

In her footage, posted to social media platform X, a police officer was seen approaching her.

'So at this stage you are under arrest. I am going to have to take the phone off you,' the officer said.

'But why are you arresting me?' she asked and was told 'for trespass'.

'But that’s a constituent’s office and I should be able to go in there,' Ms Shaweesh replied.

'I have a legal right to be heard. We’ve paid for a government service which is the Department of Foreign Affairs to apply for a visa but it’s been declined.

'You then go to your local member if it’s been declined and they can assist you.' 

'I understand that,' the officer said. 

'He doesn’t want to assist me ... for no reason,' Ms Shaweesh added. 

However the officer was undeterred. 

'So, Anthony Albanese’s office is arresting me because I have come in for assistance,' Ms Shaweesh said.

'Anthony Albanese’s office is not arresting you,' the officer replied.

'I am arresting you.' 

 A NSW Police spokesperson said they were called to Mr Albanese's office at 11.50am 'following reports of a number of people refusing to leave an office'.

'Two people were issued with a move on direction,' the spokesperson said.

'A 33-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly failed to leave from the office after being asked by an employee within the building.

'The woman was taken to Newtown Police Station where she was charged with trespass on prohibited Commonwealth land.'

In a GoFundMe Ms Shaweesh wrote she was trying to help 11 members of her family, including children, 'flee the escalating violence in Gaza' but each needed at least US$5000 to do so. 

'With their homes destroyed, infrastructure crumbling, and the threat of airstrikes looming overhead, their safety is in jeopardy at every moment,' she wrote in the fundraiser.

'With each week, their situation is becoming more dire. The family faced winter with no windows, food or clean water. They are relying on aid, which is scarce.'

She said the money collected 'will be sent to our family members already on the ground in Egypt, who will organise everything needed to evacuate my two cousins, their wives and children'.

Ms Shaweesh wrote an update in April to thank her supporters as the page reached nearly half of its $70,000 goal.

Earlier this month Daily Mail Australia Political Editor Peter Van Onselen castigated the PM for 'surrendering his office in Sydney's inner-west to a pro-Palestinian protest camp'.

'Mr Albanese has been locked out of the Marrickville digs he's had for years because of a handful of peaceful demonstrators,' Van Onselen wrote.

'It has largely rendered the office serving his constituents inoperable.'

Van Onselen noted there 'are ample laws designed and used frequently to disperse protesters'.

'However, for some reason, the PM doesn't want to rock the boat and forcibly remove the pro-Palestine encampment,' he wrote.

'Perhaps he's worried that the scenes will cause a backlash on Labor's political left flank.

'So instead, since January, the nation's leader has allowed himself to be rendered powerless and unable to visit. Fencing has even been erected to protect parts of the office space.

'Staff have been told the office can't function as it should due to safety reasons - despite the wholly unthreatening nature of the demonstration.

'Bemused constituents, used to being able to access the resources of their local MP, arrive only to find that they need to call a number to get any form of service they used to be able to walk into the office and receive.'