A woman will face court after being charged following an unauthorised protest in Maitland today (Saturday 6 July 2024).
About 6am, police received information that a number of protesters had entered the rail corridor at Farley and were causing obstruction to trains.
Officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District attended the site and arrested a 21-year-old woman from Queensland.
She was taken to Maitland Police Station where she was charged with three offences – enter inclosed non-agricultural lands serious safety risk, cause obstruction to railway locomotive or rolling stock and hinder working of mining equipment.
She was refused bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court today (Saturday 6 July 2024).
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