Operations at Australia’s coal port to resume on Monday after climate protest disruption

One of Australia's biggest coal export ports will resume operations on Monday (December 1, 2025), the port operator said, after climate-change protesters disrupted shipping at the Port of Newcastle for a second day on Sunday (November 30, 2025).

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Climate activist group Rising Tide, which claimed responsibility for the latest protest, said, “Hundreds of activists paddled kayaks into the shipping lane of Newcastle Harbour on Sunday (November 30) morning, violating an exclusion zone.”

The port, 170 km (110 miles) north of New South Wales State capital Sydney, is the largest bulk shipping port on the east coast of Australia, a nation where climate change is a divisive issue.

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