Yesterday, about 150 people gathered outside Luna Park where a $1,500 per head gala dinner was held by Siemens. Siemens is one of the few companies that can provide critical signalling work for Adani’s railway to their planned coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin. The coal mine will be one of the largest in the world. Protesters urged Siemens not to proceed with a decision to work on the Adani project.
Ironically, dinner guests arrived on charted cruise boats and dressed in tuxedos as the skies closed down with thick acrid bushfire smoke. The current bushfires raging across the country are said to be exacerbated by climate change and the emission of greenhouse gasses, including those emitted by the burning of coal. Former fire chiefs have also backed up claims that climate change is impacting bushfires. The smoke from these fires are said to be hazardous to health and is expected to hang around Sydney at least for weeks.
It was later reported that two demonstrators ‘locked on’ inside the dinner.
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