Climate defence group Rising Tide
staged The
People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coal Port over
a weekend in November, which involved a 30-hour sanctioned on-water
obstruction of the Nobbys Headland entrance to Newcastle Port, at
the point where the Tasman and the Hunter meet.
In support of the mass civil disobedience action commencing late
morning on Saturday 25 November, a four day festival was held on
Newcastle's Horseshoe Beach, with thousands of supporters,
including contingents from the Greens, the Bob Brown Foundation and
Socialist Alliance.
Just to be clear, the climate crisis is no longer confined to
the poles, as
northern Queensland and
regional Victoria have only just suffered extreme rain events,
which followed the mass
floodings in the east over 2022 and the
destruction of 20 percent of mainland forest in the 2019/20
wildfires.
