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

  • Cruxil 🇦🇺
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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_gravitasOP
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        1 year ago

        Oh they’re causing trouble for regular people

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