Tuesday, 20th of August, 2002

The ABC Report has changed its headline to “Greenpeace action takes protesting to new heights”. The story is that Greenpeace activists today scaled the flagpole of Parliament House in Canberra, and replaced the Australian flag with a big banner saying “Ratify Kyoto Now” This has been timed to coincide with the beginning of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, which the Australian government has basically ignored (we’ve sent someone, but only as lip service at best).
Seven activists were arrested and charged with trespassing, it says - that’s the 3 climbers and the 4 people at the bottom blocking the Federal Police… Just got a call from Tim (my aforementioned brother and co-founding-member of FourPlay) who said that all seven have been bailed already, and the only charge was trespassing on Commonwealth property. So it’s a big success for Greenpeace.
All the ABC stations have been covering it all day, which is really great to see. It was lead story on the ABC news site for most of the day too. Hurrah!

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