A woman has been charged following an unauthorised protest on a rail corridor in the Newcastle area today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 7.15am today (Monday 19 June 2023), emergency services were called to a rail line on Wagtail Way Kooragang, following reports a group had gathered at the location, including a woman who had suspended herself from a pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District attended, and with assistance from Police Rescue, the woman was removed safely from the structure and arrested about 10.40am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 22-year-old was taken to Waratah Police Station, where she was charged with cause obstruction to railway locomotive and enter inclosed lands give rise to serious risk to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court tomorrow (Tuesday 20 June 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Investigations into the incident continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman has been charged following an unauthorised protest on a rail corridor in the Newcastle area today. About 7.15am today (Monday 19 June 2023), emergency services were called to a rail line on Wagtail Way Kooragang, following reports a group had gathered at the location, including a woman who had suspended herself from a … Continue reading “Woman charged following unauthorised protest \u2013 Kooragang\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21454,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21453\/revisions\/21454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}