Council backflips to ban climate group's protests on community land
The City of Newcastle bans a climate action group from protesting on community land "now and into the future", sparking fears about the right to peacefully protest.
Council backflips to ban climate group's protests on community land
The City of Newcastle bans a climate action group from protesting on community land "now and into the future", sparking fears about the right to peacefully protest. Grouped from 3 articles across 2 sources.
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Rising Tide banned from using council land for protests at world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
NSW premier Chris Minns warned council would be complicit in any ‘illegal activities that occur at these protests’ Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast Newcastle council – home to the world’s largest coal port – has banned a climate group from holding any events on its land after consulting the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, who warned the council would be complicit in any “illegal activities that occur at these protests”. On Tuesday night the council’s independent lord mayor, Gavin Morris, used his casting vote to ban any licensing of Rising Tide’s events, claiming in a mayoral minute that the group had “broken the trust and faith of the Newcastle community” by defying police directions during past protests. Continue reading...
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