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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe, Sean Ruse and Michael McGowan

UNCOVERED: Violet coco is not alone the climate activists facing jail | History Defined

Climate protesters Lee Coaldrake, 69, and Dianne Tucker, 68
Lee Coaldrake and Dianne Tucker have been charged with ‘disturbing the legislature’, a charge not used in Queensland for three decades. Photograph: David Kelly/Photograph David Kelly/The Guardian

Lee Coaldrake was 18 when she joined protests in Brisbane against South Africa’s rugby tour of Australia in 1971.

She later became an anaesthetist, got married, had two daughters and then seven grandchildren – and didn’t participate in another demonstration for nearly 50 years.

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