Local activists are celebrating a win after a coal conference on the New South Wales South Coast was indefinitely postponed amid planned mass protests.
The University of Wollongong has announced it will no longer host the Coal 2020 Conference in February over community concerns.
“Our plan was to make sure we make as much as noise as possible, and peacefully make sure we don’t accept this type of coal conference is business as usual” said Martin Cubby from the Illawarra Climate Justice Alliance.
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