“I pulled the emergency stop cord until it bore my full weight,” writes Nicholas Avery, of shutting down the Adani Operation at Abbot Point. “The drone of the conveyor started to abate, and, with it, a long bed of coal, the end point of a process of extraction that stretches hundreds of kilometres into the heart of Queensland, ground to a halt. By locking our arms to the coal conveyor belt at Abbot Point port, myself and four others shut down Adani’s primary operations in Australia.
“By locking on at the port, we sought to cut the production line at its strongest point, showing the world, and in particular our elected representatives, the measures ordinary people are willing to take in opposition to this mine.”
Plus: Paul Bongiorno on the departure of George Brandis and the arrival of Jim Molan, and Natalie Cromb on how a treaty would reset the national story.
The Saturday Paper
