Australia, March 11 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Feb. 11:
1. This matter came before me, at short notice, on 21 November 2024, in the Duty List. It was before the Court by way of summons, filed that day by Ms Stuart on behalf of Rising Tide, a community activist movement particularly concerned with climate change, against the Minister for Transport for the State of New South Wales. Rising Tide was intending to hold a 3 day event in Newcastle (which was part of a longer 10 day event covering both Newcastle and Canberra) in relation to which the Minister had gazetted a Notice. The Notice was due to come into effect at 5:00pm that day and purported to exclude vessels and people from a...