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Writing in The Conversation, Laura Schuijers, Research Fellow in Environmental Law at The University of Melbourne reports on the Australian Federal Court's landmark judgement on climate change, marking an important moment in our history.

The national budget should have addressed the emergency transition we so desperately need - instead it included more of the ‘business-as-usual’ measures that are taking us to the brink of collapse. XR rebels went to Canberra to demand action.

Regular Australians are urgently called to take part in disruptive and nonviolent civil disobedience. Our government continues to commit future generations and our beautiful country to death by failing to act on the climate emergency.

A program of events, The Festival of Civil Disobedience explores nonviolent civil disobedience as a strategy for system change.

Today, 12 October 2020, 12 Extinction Rebels fronted District Court at Downing Centre Sydney, charged with alleged offences including obstructing traffic and disobeying reasonable direction.

Waves of action and a Dead Sea march in Hobart.

This October, XR Sydney will hit the streets for Rebellion 2020 with a clear message: WE WANT TO LIVE. Find out how you can get involved.

Many of us are finding we have more time on our hands right now — here’s how you can make a difference with your downtime.

On the longest night of the year, thousands of impassioned citizens gathered in capital cities across Australia, to protest the Adani Mine and call on our state and federal governments to declare a Climate Emergency.

Since the Australian Federal election, Extinction Rebellion Australia has been continuing to grow, organise, and take direct action to draw attention to the climate crisis we find ourselves in, and XR’s proposed solutions.

Brave rebels in the United Kingdom have caused massive disruption in central London during ten days of peaceful civil disobedience, with over 1000 arrests.

This Saturday (27th April) at midday, Extinction Rebellion Victoria staged a mass die-in on the front steps of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. This was in solidarity with countless other die-in’s happening internationally.

The first week of international rebellion has kicked off with actions right across Australia

At 7:30 Monday morning (15th April), about 35 members of the international climate activist group Extinction Rebellion began a partial shutdown of one of Melbourne’s main east-west traffic corridors in Carlton.

Freya Nolin, a 21 yr old from Fremantle WA was charged with a $10,000 fine this Tuedsay in the Bowen Magistrate’s court after blocking coal trains from entering Adani’s Abbot Point last month.

XR Australia has been growing in momentum as a movement since late 2018. In the time since then, we’ve amassed plenty of support, and are getting organised in a decentralised, autonomous way.

On March 22, XR Australia mobilised across the nation and made our presence, and our demands known.

Six days of unprecedented civil disobedience have starved Adani’s Abbot Point port of coal over the last week. Trains were stopped in a near continuous shutdown for over 75 hours during a week of non-violent direct action in central Queensland.

This afternoon a 28 year old concerned community health worker named Jill is blocking coal from entering the Adani owned Abbot Point Coal Terminal.

Early this morning around 30 concerned citizens from around Australia were denied entry by Security and Police to the Caley Valley Wetlands, which lie adjacent to Adani owned Abbot Point coal terminal.