Climate activists have targeted News Corp Australia's offices with manure and a brief blockade in a series of protests against the media giant's coverage of climate change.
Climate activists have targeted News Corp Australia's offices with manure and a brief blockade in a series of protests against the media giant's coverage of climate change.
Protesters in Sydney also climbed the building and unfurled a banner outside the entrance reading"tell the truth". "We want you at the Advertiser to start telling the truth clearly, completely and with conviction," the missive said. A group of protesters also disrupted work at the organisation's Murarrie printing and distribution centre in Brisbane overnight, chaining themselves to gates and gluing themselves to the top of a newspaper delivery truck.Police were called to disperse the rally just after 11pm and arrested nine people, issuing seven with fines for trespassing and public nuisance offences, a spokesman told AAP.
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