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Australia’s ‘protestival’: kayaks, music, a push for climate change action – and the risk of arrest

Fossil fuel protesters are making their annual pilgrimage to the NSW city of Newcastle to draw attention to climate policy failure. Police will be there too, with a ‘zero tolerance approach’

The Guardian - AU

Climate activists to plead not guilty en masse under NSW’s controversial anti-protest laws

Rising Tide campaigners were arrested at Newcastle’s coal port in late 2024 after using kayaks and rafts to protest at facility

The Guardian - AU

Rising Tide protesters arrested in Canberra for blocking road to Parliament House

Hundreds of climate protesters joined a rally in Canberra on Wednesday – days after a protest in Newcastle

The Guardian - AU

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Courts, politicians and police in the sea: the many battles for climate activists at NSW’s Rising Tide protest

Experts say moves to stop the protest come amid an escalating crackdown on activism across the country

The Guardian - AU

Court scraps 'marine exclusion zone' ahead of protest

A temporary exclusion zone intended to help police a major planned climate protest, has been scrapped by a court just one hour before it was due to commence.

AAP

Railway-blockade fine added in latest protest crackdown

A proposed $22,000 fine for protesters obstructing railways balances the right to protest with keeping people safe, according to the NSW government.

Newcastle Herald

'We will make our voices heard': court ruling doesn't deter climate protesters

Supreme Court justice says 30-hour coal port blockade is 'excessive'.

Newcastle Herald

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Newcastle climate campaigner named Young Environmentalist of the Year

Alexa Stuart has been campaigning for action on climate change since she was 15.

Newcastle Herald

Former miner: how and why I helped stop a coal train

If the government won't take action against corporations, the people will

Newcastle Herald

How the kayaks got loose on the Newcastle Harbour (and what it says about climate protests)

Are protests the right way to deal with climate change?

Newcastle Herald

Reverend, 97, among 100 arrested as climate protest shuts down world’s largest coal port

Over 3,000 protesters assemble at Newcastle to demonstrate against ‘government inaction’ ahead of COP28

The Independent UK

Minister, 97, off the hook after port blockade arrest

A 97-year-old minister arrested alongside more than 100 activists is resolute in his fight for climate justice after blockading Newcastle Port for 30 hours.

AAP

Arrests on Newcastle Harbour follow three-day climate protest

Activists refused to leave following the expiry of protest permit

Newcastle Herald

Newcastle port blockade: paddling activists take part in one of the biggest climate protests in Australia’s history

Rising Tide’s weekend occupation of shipping channel urges the government to raise fossil fuel taxes and stop new coal projects

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'Every choice matters': hundreds gather at climate change forum

'Should our governments allow new coal in the climate crisis?' was the question.

Newcastle Herald

'We're bracing ourselves for grim updates': Newcastle hosts climate forum

Monday's climate forum comes ahead of next month's harbour blockade.

Newcastle Herald

Climate protesters to target Newcastle Harbour

November's harbour protest will be the third blockade in a decade.

Newcastle Herald

'I'll be lucky to die of old age': These are the election issues for voters under 30

A child born in 2020 is facing a future of more extreme climate emergency than ever before; it's just one issue for young voters this election.

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Teenagers arrested after climate protest at Whitehaven Coal's Newcastle office

Protesters that busted into the boardroom at Whitehaven Coal's Newcastle office have been arrested after they served a 'cease and desist' order on its plans to build new mines and expand existing ones.

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