ABC News In-depth | Environmental protesters avoid jail time after disrupting Queensland Parliament | 7.30 @ABCNewsIndepth | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Environmental protesters who disrupted the Queensland Parliament nearly two years ago have finally been sentenced.

The group avoided jail time but have described the charges laid against them as 'significant over-reach’.

It's part of a wider national debate about how authorities are clamping down on climate protests.

7.30’s Will Murray reports with Peter McCutcheon.

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