Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It was a real privilege to join the Rising Tide with thousands of courageous climate warriors in Newcastle on the weekend. Right there we saw the best example of people power. No amount of overpolicing or cracking down on our right to dissent will stop climate defenders from showing up to protect our planet and our future. Disgraceful attempts by the Labor Minns government to shut down the protest against coal corporations and complicit governments who are fuelling climate collapse will not stop us.

The world we live in is burning, boiling and flooding, yet Labor has approved 28 coal and gas projects since coming to office. The climate crisis is not only engulfing people's lives, livelihoods and homes here, but the Global South, who did little to contribute to this, are bearing the brunt on the front line. How many times will people from the Pacific push us and plead with us to end coal and gas because it robbing them of their future hopes and dreams? People would haven't to take to the water if the government were doing their job.

If the major parties refuse to take on coal and gas corporations because those parties' pockets are lined with dirty donations, the people will. We will take on the corporations and we will end new coal and gas. People should be proud of the direct actions that they are taking for the love of the planet and its people and for the love of nature, forests and animals, and the Greens are with the Rising Tide.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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