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Monday 19 October 2026

Greenpeace activists held after Woodside platform protest

Two Greenpeace activists were taken into custody on Sunday after occupying Woodside's Scarborough gas platform off WA. Woodside paused pre-commissioning.

Quin Halberg Monday 19 October 2026, open calendar5 min read

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Two Greenpeace activists spent Saturday night hanging off the side of a gas platform more than 200 kilometres off the West Australian coast. On Sunday a police helicopter came for them.

The hull of Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior, with its name, a white dove and a rainbow painted on green — Photo: Jean-Pierre Bazard / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0), cropped

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