NEWCASTLE, Sunday 30 November 2025 — Two Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists have been arrested by specialist police on a coal ship exterior the Port of Newcastle, following a greater than seven-hour-long peaceable protest throughout Rising Tide’s Individuals’s Blockade right now.
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Three activists safely climbed and suspended from coal ship Yangze 16 at round 8:00am AEDT on Sunday, halting its operations and stopping its 12:15pm arrival into the Port of Newcastle. One of many activists, who was secured to the anchor chain, disembarked safely attributable to altering climate situations. The opposite two activists, who had been expertly secured to the aspect of the ship and holding a banner that learn: PHASE OUT COAL AND GAS, had been arrested at round 3:30pm by police climbers, who landed by helicopter on the ship round 1:45pm.
On the time of writing, no expenses have been laid.
It comes as two different coal ships in two days had been stopped by a peaceable flotilla on the Individuals’s Blockade of the Port of Newcastle, the world’s largest coal port. The port has been closed for the remainder of Sunday in consequence.
From the shore on the Individuals’s Blockade, Joe Rafalowicz, Head of Local weather and Power at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, stated:
“The suitable to peaceable protest is a basic pillar of a wholesome democracy and a fundamental proper of all Australians. Change requires displaying up and talking out, and that’s what our activists are doing in Newcastle right now.
“Because the world’s third-largest fossil gasoline exporter, Australia performs an outsized function within the local weather disaster. Peaceable protest to name on the Albanese authorities to set a timeline to section out coal and fuel, and cease approving new fossil gasoline tasks, is respectable and priceless. Greenpeace Australia Pacific stands by and helps our activists, and stands with all peaceable local weather defenders who’re advocating for actual local weather motion on the Blockade, and throughout Australia.”
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