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The chief executive of Australia’s largest gas company has obtained violence restraining orders against members of a climate action group who protested outside her home. (www.smh.com.au)
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One of the protesters, university student Matilda Lane-Rose, held a press conference outside WA’s state parliament two days after she was arrested, where she defended her action outside O’Neill’s home as peaceful and slammed Woodside’s gas projects as a disaster for the climate and indigenous heritage.

“In terms of her feeling threatened, I’d just like it to be known that there were over a dozen counter-terrorist police officers camped both inside and outside her property overnight,” she said.

“So I think that she was very, very protected on Tuesday, and there was no threat whatsoever posed by me, a 19-year-old carrying a bike lock.”

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[–] Jackolantern 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m against protests outside private residences, but given the context, the fact that her home was surrounded by a dozen riot police inside and outside the property, and there is only one teenage girl with a bike protesting, speaks volumes about how our society favors the privileged few over the needs of the many.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

― John F. Kennedy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The orders, which were sought by O'Neill, include a condition that the campaigners may not “make any reference to person protected by any electronic means.”

And another voice is silenced while the planet litterally burns.