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Our taxes should not be used to subsidise unlawful protest groups

23 August 2017

7:10 AM

23 August 2017

7:10 AM

Earlier this year, fifteen Greenpeace activists illegally accessed a ten-storey high coal stockpile at the Port of Newcastle. They put themselves and police rescuers in danger to push their anti-mining messages. The protesters were arrested.

You helped pay for it.

In the same month, Greenpeace activists scaled Commonwealth Bank’s headquarters in Sydney to protest against something the bank was apparently doing that Greenpeace didn’t like.

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