A Royal Commission hears that students at the Australian National University (ANU) were influenced by “peer pressure” to remain at the country’s longest-running pro-Palestine Gaza solidarity encampment. The account presented to the inquiry describes the encampment as ongoing and long established, and suggests that peer influence affected students’ decisions about whether to continue participating. The reports agree that the claim is made in the context of the Commission’s examination of the circumstances surrounding the encampment and students’ conduct. Across the sources, the central points are that the Commission is told ANU students did not act entirely independently when deciding to stay, and that social pressure within the student group is cited as a factor. The articles do not provide additional details about who applied pressure, what form it took, or whether it involved any specific threats or coercion. The reporting focuses on the Commission’s hearing of this allegation and the suggestion that group dynamics played a role in keeping the encampment in place.