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Miklos Bolza

Climate activist spared jail over blockade

Climate protester Wenzel Auch has been handed an 18-month community corrections order and fine. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A climate change activist who suspended himself above a train track at a Sydney port has avoided jail despite his "irresponsible, unlawful" protest.

On Thursday, Wenzel Valentine Auch was sentenced to an 18-month community corrections order and fined $1350 for his role in protests planned by Blockade Australia in March this year.

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