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The police crackdown on Blockade Australia

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Blockade Australia - How Have Authorities Responded?

Since blockade australia began using these kind of disruptive protest tactics, how have authorities responded? Well, i think what happened is, after their initial protests, which were, i thinks, like a couple of people peacefully locked on to a a bridge approaching port botany. Now, in response to that, that initial action, the new south wales government pass some very jaconian new protest laws and set up strike force guard,. But these test laws, you can go to prison for after two years, you can be fined up to 22 thousand dollars if you disrupt a wide range of intestructor. So they've turned protest offences that once might have been the sort of thing someone

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