Blockade Australia plans more climate protests disrupting Newcastle trains, saying disobedience is the only option

Blockade Australia spokesperson Brad Homewood says the climate protests centred on Newcastle rail are drawing attention to Australia’s political and economic system. ‘We believe that is the core of the problem.’ Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

It was right on sunrise when Ian Fox, 67, began dangling above a busy railway on a cold Newcastle morning.

The South Australian hadn’t been in the Hunter for long before he suspended himself above the train lines on 25 June. As he hung there, a sign was unfurled below him that said: “Survival depends on non-compliance.”