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Environment
Rachael Ward, Caitlin Powell and Neve Brissenden

Protesters stop coal boats as more than 100 arrested

Police ordered climate activists to stay out of a shipping channel at the Port of Newcastle. (Michael Gorton/AAP PHOTOS)

Almost 200 people have been arrested for pausing activity at the world's biggest coal port as part of a climate protest.

Protesters formed a "blockade" in the Port of Newcastle on Sunday in the third day of unrest, calling on the federal government to rule out new coal and gas mines and for a 78 per cent tax on coal and gas exports.

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