Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience in Australia

"As disruptive climate protests increase across the world, governments are legislating to deter them with harsher penalties, new offences and new powers...The Australian Constitution infamously contains limited express rights."

"Mainstream politics is disincentivised from leading uncomfortable conversations unless it has no choice. If parliamentary politics steps up to the challenge of the climate emergency, it will be because it is forced to do so either by a ‘politics of discomfort’, or because the scale of disaster that unfolds from its current trajectory creates that discomfort."

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