Adani mine protesters target Sydney engineering company
They caused chaos in Queensland when they glued themselves to major roads and dumped canoes in Brisbane’s CBD. Now, protesters against the Adani mine plans have descended on Sydney.
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The radical climate change protest group which has caused havoc and pestered Queensland with extreme acts like glueing themselves to the road has descended on Sydney.
Long-haired, bearded protesters gathered out the front of Castlereagh Rd’s GHD building in Sydney from 8.30am on Tuesday to protest against Adani.
Employees of businesses in the building were yelled at and handed posters and leaflets as they tried to enter.
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The protest was co-ordinated by The Socialist Alliance and Extinction Rebellion, the same group which caused commuter chaos in Brisbane, with 34 men and 38 women aged between 18 and 73 arrested last week.
The Sydney group invaded GHD’s lobby, sat on the floor and began singing anti-Adani songs once more protesters arrived outside the building.
Extinction Rebellion organiser Trevor Payne admitted to The Daily Telegraph he didn’t know where the mine he was protesting against was expected to be built.
“It is in the middle of Queensland somewhere,” he said.
He agreed that thousands of people would lose their jobs if plans for the mine were cancelled.
“I think there are people (in Queensland) whose livelihoods will be impacted but the livelihoods of their families and their children will be impacted if Adani goes ahead,” Mr Payne said.
“I can’t deny that it will be a concern and that people’s lives will be affected if Adani does not go ahead.”
Around 50 protesters lined up outside the building distributing flyers to workers trying to get to their offices.
The protesters also shouted songs at people as they passed. “Hey hey, ho ho Adani has got to go,” they chanted.
Two students from Newtown High School of Performing Arts were taking half the day off to take part in the protests.
“My parents support me being here, I study geography at school and my teacher is really supportive too,” Tallulah Moir-Balboa, 17, said.
“My mum is a nurse and my dad is an artist. They are not super involved in this.”
Her friend, Rosa Scheer, 17, whose mother used to work for The Greens, said they don’t want adults to ruin the world.
“It won’t be the adults who have the problem of climate change, it will be us.”
There was a heavy police and security presence with officers controlling the situation.
Protesters have not said how long they will be at the building.
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