Blockade Australia protestors stop major trade routes for coal reform

"Hope lies in a culture of resistance" read a Blockade Australia's banner.

Protestors glued, climbed and abseiled around the country to disrupt shipping ports and demand action on the climate crisis.

Newcastle Blockade Australia protestor Kalpa Goldflam said "I take this action today on Wonnarua Country as an act of civil resistance".

"Our world as we know it is continuing to hurtle towards ecological and climate collapse."

NSW police minister Yasmin Catley said the protestors actions "do absolutely nothing for the environment or climate change."

"All they're doing is bringing attention to themselves and it's very, very dangerous," she said. .

"Stop the system, protect each other," read the banner above the Port of Melbourne on June 23.

A protestor climbed a nine metre monopole and blocked trains to the port, Blockade Australia said.

In the early morning of June 22, protestor Jacinta Walsh jumped on a train's roof near the Port of Melbourne.

She said "I fight for humanity, I fight for all species, I fight for the earth. We have one home, let's keep it healthy. I fight for life".

One protestor abseiled from Shepherd Bridge on Footscray Road in Melbourne where she hung above the Maribyrnong River until she was arrested on the afternoon of June 21.

She said she chose to block the six-lane road to limit access by trucks to the Port of Melbourne.

"I am taking effective action by myself to create the change that we need to see," she said.

She encouraged others to think about doing "something similar".

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Protestor Naomi Shine disrupted operations at the Port of Brisbane around 4pm on June 21 by locking herself onto two cars and blocking the road.

This comes after two days of protests that included erecting tripod frames to block major roads.

Multiple protestors disrupted operations at the Port of Newcastle between June 19 and June 23.

Protests on the fifth day, June 23, began at 6am when a man locked himself onto a stacker reclaimer, stopping operations at the port, Blockade Australia said.

He also hit "the big red button" and stopped some machinery, the group said.

On June 22, Blockade Australia said they shut down the rail line to the port after jumping on top of, and locking onto, a stopped train.

The train was over a bridge crossing the Hunter River at Singleton, they said.

Ms Goldflam said "the growing network of Blockade Australia continues to hold the Australian system accountable for the current ecocide".

Trains between Scone and Maitland were stopped for around seven hours with protestors blocking the tracks on June 21.

Another protestor livestreamed from inside the Port of Newcastle on June 20.

"I've just pressed the emergency stop button and all the lights went out," she said.

Ms Catley said the protestors will be charged.