Police block streets as 4000 people attend Brisbane rally protesting Adani mine

Thousands of people have flooded Brisbane’s CBD to protest Adani in a massive rally that has been compared to the famous movement that helped one of the nation’s most controversial energy schemes.

THOUSANDS of people have flooded Brisbane’s CBD to protest Adani in a massive rally that has been compared to the famous movement that helped axe Tasmania’s contentious Franklin Dam.

Police blocked off several streets yesterday as activists marched from Queens Gardens to Adani’s Brisbane headquarters opposite Eagle Street Pier.

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Former Greens leader Bob Brown told cheering crowds he thought there were 4000 people taking part in the march. He compared its size to the anti-Franklin Dam movement 36 years ago.

“Last year 150,000 of our fellow warm-hearted human beings, children, women and men died from global heating largely due to coal, oil and gas,” he said.

Protesters block streets in the anti-Adani march in Brisbane. Picture: Peter Wallis

Two protesters dressed up in bobble-head costumes of Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor Leader Bill Shorten threw a piece of fake coal between them on the steps of the building as activists performed a dance routine.

The Mr Brown-led convoy, which left Hobart last week, will leave Brisbane today as it continues its journey north to the Galilee Basin.

It has been warned that, when it reaches Clermont this weekend, the coalmining town will refuse to serve activists at shops and pubs.

Bob Brown fronts the anti-Adani protest march in Brisbane.

Mr Brown yesterday dismissed comments that activists in the convoy were “blow-ins”.

“This year: floods in Townsville, homes washed away, people died, bushfires in Tasmania,” he said.

“Are you going to pay for that Guatam Adani? Will you sign up to responsibility for that Scott Morrison? Will you get off the fence … Bill Shorten?

“This is the single biggest election gathering so far in this crucial 2019 election anywhere in Australia because we register that there is a climate emergency.”

The Carmichael coal mine dominated the campaign hustings yesterday with Mr Shorten claiming there were “no plans” to send key Adani mine approvals back to the drawing board if Labor won power.

About 4000 people took part.

Mr Morrison slammed protesters, after the The Courier-Mail revealed activists had compared coal miners to Nazis.

The Prime Minister said he expected the Greens to denounce the comments.