The claims were shared by an Australia-based user on Facebook here on February 12, 2022.
The post circulated online following an anti-vaccine mandate protest in Canberra on the same day.
The protest was part of the Convoy to Canberra movement, a spin-off of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” that has paralysed the Canadian capital Ottawa for more than two weeks.
Similar convoy protests have been staged in New Zealand, where demonstrators set up camp on the lawns of the New Zealand Parliament in the country’s capital Wellington.
The post's caption reads in part: "The biggest gathering in Canberra of all time!
"Police report they let 1.4 million vehicles through and that was yesterday. People were still pouring in overnight and all morning."
It continues: "Most vehicles had more than one person in them. Amongst the vehicles, there were 100s of special buses that came full of people from all over Australia.
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