[9News] Anti-coal activists shut down ports in three states

https://www.9news.com.au/national/blockade-australia-activist-shuts-down-port-of-newcastle-coal-operation/c1cd7b46-0015-46cc-b16d-156f00db5818

Blockade Australia started the action with a woman who dangled herself from a rail bridge near the Kooragang Island terminals at the Port Of Newcastle at 7am, launching protests that followed in Brisbane and Melbourne

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Cruxil@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

What's everyone opinion on protests like this? Imo this gets a decent message out there with pretty minimal impact to anything other than the businesses managing and utilising the port as well as emergency services.

spiffmeister@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

It's apparently what people want, everytime protesters shut down roads there's the usual complains from the shock jocks and co:

Oh they're causing trouble for regular people it's just annoying they could have blocked an ambulance blah blah blah

Pretty hard to argue against protests like this though without looking like a corporate lapdog.

zero_gravitas@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 3y

Oh they're causing trouble for regular people

The news story I saw about this took that angle anyway 😆