Climate change protestor suspends themselves from rail bridge in Sydney

Another climate change protester is disrupting freight trains in Sydney this morning for a fourth day of demonstrations.

Police are now on the scene at Tempe where the demonstrator suspended themselves from the rail bridge over a canal.

Earlier, a live video was uploaded to Blockade Australia's Facebook detailing the protest.

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A climate change protester has suspended himself from a rail bridge in Sydney.

It comes as hundreds of thousands of school students around the world will strike for climate justice on Friday 25 March.

"Students are striking because they are terrified of the future they are inheriting and horrified by the unequal implications for others," Dr Blanche Verlie, a climate justice expert in the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, said.

The NSW Government vowed to crackdown on unauthorised protestors who disrupt traffic.

The Roads Amendment Regulation 2022 will be made to make it an offence to disrupt any bridge or tunnel across Greater Sydney.

The regulation is made under section 144G of the Roads Act 1993, but currently only applies to disruption on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Section 144G carries a maximum penalty of 200 penalty units ($22,000) or imprisonment for two years, or both.

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Deputy Premier of New South Wales Paul Toole said the state government will crack down on protesters who disrupt traffic.

Deputy Premier of NSW Paul Toole lashed the "inexcusable" actions in a press conference yesterday.

He said the measures are critical in deterring future protests.

"These actions are inexcusable, these actions are basically putting their thumbs up to those in NSW," Mr Toole said.

"We've had enough."

Yesterday a protester was arrested after he blocked train a train line in Pagewood in Sydney's south.

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