Australia's climate change inaction is now bipartisan. Protest is all we have left | Jeff Sparrow

Queensland Labor gearing up to criminalise activism is only a taste of the kind of intimidation that's likely to come

"Even though I was the one who had been assaulted, I was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. ["] I will never forgive or forget what came next. I was 'verballed' by the police who manufactured the most incredible statements about the whole thing."

That was Peter Beattie, who would later become ALP premier of Queensland, detailing his treatment by police during anti-apartheid protests against the South African rugby team in July 1971.