Rising Tide banned from using council land for protests at world’s largest coal port in Newcastle

NSW premier Chris Minns warned council would be complicit in any ‘illegal activities that occur at these protests’

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Newcastle council – home to the world’s largest coal port – has banned a climate group from holding any events on its land after consulting the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, who warned the council would be complicit in any “illegal activities that occur at these protests”.

On Tuesday night the council’s independent lord mayor, Gavin Morris, used his casting vote to ban any licensing of Rising Tide’s events, claiming in a mayoral minute that the group had “broken the trust and faith of the Newcastle community” by defying police directions during past protests.