Three protesters from Blockade Australia have been dealt with by police after staging coordinated protests as part of a 'week of resistance' from the climate group.
Demonstrators from the climate group Blockade Australia took to some of the country’s biggest coal ports and disrupted both shipments and traffic from the early hours of the morning.
The Port of Newcastle is one of the world's largest coal ports. Picture: Ashley Cooper/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images She livestreamed the whole ordeal from 7am, which included an about from police around an hour later.“A woman has been arrested following a police operation in response to an unauthorised protest on the rail corridor in Kooragang this morning,” a spokesperson said.
The shipping operations at the port remain unaffected, a spokesperson for the Port of Newcastle told SkyNews.com.au.
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