Just like the Rising Tide 2024 arrestees, those of us arrested in November 2025 for suggesting that coal exports are cooking the planet and unnecessary for the welfare of ordinary Australians are ‘in a holding pattern’.
The police were required to present evidence to the court by 10 April 2026, but they didn’t. Instead, the police advised that they need more time.
As of 16 April, no date has been confirmed for police to serve the outstanding material. Because of that, it is likely that the court matters won’t progress much on the next court date (8 May 2026).
I think our own local police people are amazing. For the most part, they form part of our social safety net. But their lawyers in Sydney are enforcing Labor policy which now seems to include punishment by stalling and delaying court processes.
So please let Labor know that more spending on weapons and less on humanity will lose them office in the long term, unless they succeed in creating a 1930s-Europe-like scenario here in the 2030s.
I ask Labor to stop expanding laws against protest, and dragging out proceedings as an alternate punishment, and get back to looking after us. Climate change, rogue international warmongers, poverty and the increasing gap between rich and poor – these are our challenges. Locking up and buggering up protesters just consolidates the disasters that they should be overcoming.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
