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Logging protest charges against Bob Brown get the chop

Prosecutors have dropped an anti-logging protest charge levelled at former Greens leader Bob Brown, citing legal deficiencies in the case.

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Newcastle climate campaigner named Young Environmentalist of the Year

Alexa Stuart has been campaigning for action on climate change since she was 15.

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I understand Thorpe seizing the moment. I interjected during George W Bush’s speech over the Iraq invasion

The furore over the senator’s challenge to King Charles has been about her manner. Its substance is what will be remembered

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Simon Birmingham floats new ‘disorderly conduct’ penalties after Lidia Thorpe’s protest against the king

Liberal senator says world leaders could give Australia ‘a wide berth’ without measures to deter protests, but expert says such sanctions not ‘appropriate’

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Polite protest over anti-whaling campaigner's arrest

Environmental leader Bob Brown protests at embassy ever so nicely.

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Bob Brown lashes magistrate after $500 protest fine

Former Greens leader Bob Brown has been fined $500 after being found guilty of trespassing during a anti-forestry protest in Tasmania.

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'Argumentative' Bob Brown guilty after logging protest

Veteran environmentalist and former Greens leader Bob Brown has been found guilty of trespassing over an anti-forestry protest in Tasmania.

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SOS for Queen Mary's help after famed activist arrested

Tasmanian-born Queen Mary of Denmark must intervene after the arrest of anti-whaling campaigner Captain Paul Watson, former Greens leader Bob Brown says.

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Vandal who cost Newcastle West its mural should hang head in shame

Letters: 'So much for our medical system'.

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Aboriginal activist refuses to attend 'colonial' court

An arrest warrant has been issued for an Indigenous anti-forestry activist who refused to attend court claiming he's not a citizen of the "colonial" government.

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Broncos drafted 7 future Hall of Famers in 1960s (only one played for Denver)

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‘I’m ready for everything and I don’t care’: the man refusing to turn up at an Australian ‘colonial’ court

Tasmanian logging protestor Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta is due in court on Monday. But as an Aboriginal ‘non-Australian citizen’, he doesn’t recognise its jurisdiction

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Forest wars flare after pledge to grow native logging

Native forestry in Tasmania will be expanded if the Liberal government is re-elected at the upcoming state election on March 23.

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Afternoon Update: Papua New Guinea massacre; Bob Brown forest protest arrest; and is Biden too old for presidency?

Dozens reportedly killed in fresh outbreak of violence in Papua New Guinea highlands

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Bob Brown charge, ban over giant tree logging protest

A logging protest in defence of some of Tasmania's tallest trees has resulted in former Greens leader Bob Brown being charged and banned from all state forests.

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Hollywood royalty joins fight to save Aussie parrot

Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio has called for an end to native forest logging in Tasmania as he backed efforts to protect the Swift Parrot.

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Leonardo DiCaprio calls on Australia to save critically endangered swift parrot

Hollywood star tells social media followers ‘the only way to protect the swift parrot …. is to end native forest logging’

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Judge orders logging suspension amid legal challenge

A Supreme Court judge has ordered the suspension of logging in an area purportedly home to a rare parrot amid a challenge over the legality of operations.

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Court orders temporary halt to logging in Tasmanian forest ahead of swift parrot case

Bob Brown Foundation wants logging banned in area of forest south of Hobart, claiming it is breeding habitat for endangered bird

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Bob Brown fails in bid to have protest charge dismissed

Veteran environmentalist Bob Brown has lost a bid to have a protest trespassing charge thrown out and will return to court next year.

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Trespass charge against Bob Brown could fall over

A magistrate will decide whether a hearing for a trespass charges levelled at former Greens leader Bob Brown and other activists can continue.

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Bob Brown, activists fight protest trespass charges

Former Greens leader Bob Brown and two other activists are fighting trespass charges over an anti-logging protest in Tasmania.

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‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania

Sustainable Timber Tasmania said the giant tree pictured on the truck had been assessed and felled ‘for safety reasons’

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Louisiana trooper acquitted after he was caught on camera beating Black motorist with flashlight

A federal jury found Jacob Brown not guilty of depriving Aaron Bowman of his civil rights during a 2019 beating

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Jury acquits a white Louisiana trooper caught on camera beating a Black motorist

The federal jury acquitted a state trooper charged with violating the civil rights of Aaron Bowman despite body-camera footage that showed the officer pummeling him 18 times with a flashlight.

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