NSW Police have formally withdrawn charges against 125 protesters from Rising Tide’s 2024 People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port, which organisers say was one of the largest civil disobedience protests in Australian history.

What is Rising Tide? It’s ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The successful blockade of Newcastle coal port stands as the largest act of civil disobedience in Australia’s recent history, with around 8,000 people taking part.

Police on Sunday were reporting 141 people arrested at this year’s coal port blockade protest in Newcastle.

The NSW government is preparing a final business case for cabinet which would allow nuclear submarines to dock at the Port of Newcastle or Port Kembla.

Police say they’ve arrested 170 people at this year’s Rising Tide protestival in Newcastle.

Rising Tide Northern Rivers has been training all year in the Brunswick and Tweed Rivers in preparation for the November ten-day blockade of the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle – you can join the movement.

Activists are now in their 11th day of action at the World's largest coal port in Newcastle as they use direct action to draw...

Rising Tide Northern Rivers is part of a peaceful mass movement for climate defence, recently launched at Hastings Point and in Lismore.

Police are warning the public after seven packages – suspected to contain cocaine – have washed up on beaches between Newcastle and Sydney since late Friday night.

Police say they’ve charged more than a hundred protesters at the Rising Tide Newcastle Port blockade after three days of demonstrations.