‘Whatever it takes’: the activists who risk prison to shatter Australia’s climate complacency

Protesters are taking increasingly extreme action to highlight ecological collapse – and new, more draconian laws are failing to stop them

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Brad Homewood has two jobs. His paid gig requires the 50-year-old to drive a mini-mix concrete truck around suburban Melbourne. His volunteer work has resulted in him being arrested 13 times for taking part in protests meant to disrupt an economic system driving a climate and ecological emergency.

Last week Homewood glued himself to a nine-metre metal pole erected in the middle of a road at the entrance of the Port of Melbourne’s Appleton Dock. Traffic was stopped for two hours before emergency service workers could separate him from the pole and remove him from the site.

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