Two Extinction Rebellion activists who used a hire truck to block peak-hour traffic,causing a woman to give birth on the side of the road,have had their jail terms almost tripled on appeal.
One day into their prison stint,the Extinction Rebellion activists appealed their sentence for public nuisance and obstructing police after blocking traffic with a truck on Tuesday morning.
A Sydney activist is among the three climate demonstrators who allegedly blocked inbound lanes on Tuesday morning,triggering a 25-kilometre traffic jam.
A group of 13 Extinction Rebellion protesters will not face a hearing on whether they are guilty of disrupting Queensland’s Parliament until at least February next year.
Labour is widely expected to win next year’s election. But Rishi Sunak is not going to die wondering and is playing the carbon card.
The Australian arm of climate activist group Extinction Rebellion says it will protest harder,despite the British wing’s plans to tone down its tactics.
Extinction Rebellion says it wants to attract more public support ahead of what it hopes will be a massive rally in April.
Climate protesters who unfurled banners over the public gallery balcony during question time and launched into chants now face jail time.
European activists are affixing themselves to centuries-old masterpieces. Now,despite tougher protest laws,the trend is catching on in Australia too.
Two protesters from climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion glued themselves to a Picasso painting at the National Gallery of Victoria on Sunday.
WA Police failed to show who owned a footbridge so could not prove a climate activist did not have permission to chalk her anti-Woodside slogans.