Climate activists Blockade Australia protests at ports in Newcastle, Brisbane and Melbourne have disrupted coal shipments and motorway traffic.
A climate protester has suspended herself from a rail bridge at the Newcastle coal ports, blocking trains, as coordinated protests were mounted at ports in Melbourne and Brisbane.
The woman is live streaming her solitary protest online, and police are on site.
She said on Monday morning as she swung several hundred metres above the ground from the Kooragang rail bridge that the action was in response to Australia’s lack of action on climate change.
In Brisbane, a Blockade Australia protestor caused a major disruption on the Port of Brisbane Motorway at Lytton on Monday morning, sitting atop a bamboo pole….