With Australia facing an onslaught of record-breaking temperatures, floods, and bushfires in recent years, climate protests increased. However, state governments have made significant efforts to ...

The right to protest has long been defended by Australia's courts. In 2017, a landmark High Court case ruled that Tasmania's anti-protest laws were unconstitutional.

Climate protesters have brought Adelaide’s streets to a standstill after abseiling off the side of a bridge while rallying against a fossil fuel conference. A group from Extinction Rebellion ...

The criminalization of such protests has received a lot of attention in certain countries, including the UK and Australia. But there have not been any attempts to capture the global trend—until now.

Another young Blockade Australia protester, Max O’Donnell Curmi, was arrested in 2022 after he scaled a crane at Port Botany to block a docked ship being loaded with coal. Only a week earlier ...

According to the study, more than 20 per cent of all climate and environment protests in Australia involve arrests, which is more than three times the global average (6.3 per cent).

Last Friday, a young woman who briefly blocked one lane of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a protest over governments’ refusal to halt climate change was jailed for 15 months and then denied bail ...

A climate change protest off the coast of Australia's New South Wales State forced an inbound ship to turn back from the country's largest terminal for coal exports on Sunday, the port operator said.

Climate activist group Rising Tide, which claimed responsibility for the action, said around 1,500 people were at the protest, 300 of them in the shipping channel near the Port of Newcastle, as ...

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 ...

A Climate Rights International report exposes the increasingly heavy-handed treatment of climate activists in Australia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, and the US.

Adds details in paragraphs 2, 7, changes media slug. SYDNEY, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A climate change protest off Australia's east coast disrupted operations at the country's biggest coal export port ...