Key points:

  • Ninety-nine demonstrators were listed at Newcastle Local Court today over the November Newcastle protest
  • The action stopped exports of coal from the Port of Newcastle, the largest coal port in the world
  • Magistrate Stephen Olischlager says protesters had acted out of genuine concern for the environment
  • sqgl@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    Magistrate Stephen Olischlager: “”[This was] not selfishly motivated".

    Unlike the anti-lockdown protestors.

  • Welt@lazysoci.al
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    10 months ago

    World’s largest COAL port. Newcastle NSW doesn’t bigger than Shanghai or Yokohama or Hamburg ffs