Blockade Australia: how a 'sharp-eyed hippy' set off events that cast a harsh light on anti-protest laws

Rights groups worry that the ability to protest is under threat from a suite of new and proposed legislation around the nationA "sharp-eyed hippy" spotted them first: two men dressed in camouflage from their boots to their gloves, flat on their stomachs in the Colo valley scrub.The men had been peering down on a camp in Sydney's north-west where about 40 activists from the Blockade Australia movement were gathered on Sunday. Continue reading...