A police operation is underway after a protester suspended himself from a crane at Port Botany as students marched for climate action across Sydney today.
NSW police were called to the unauthorised protest to try to get the man down from the crane as climate change demonstrations continue for a fourth day.
Road and rail operations have not been impacted, police added.
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Students strike for climate action
Earlier today, young people gathered in front of the Prime Minister's Sydney home to strike for climate action.
A large number of school students have gathered outside Kirribilli House for the planned climate change protest today.
For 13-year-old Ella, the climate disaster personally impacted her when the recent floods destroyed her home in Lismore.
"It means like I've lost my home, and can't go to school can't see my friends and I've had to flee and stay at the Gold Coast for a bit with family," she told 9News.
"I'm hoping to achieve that Scott Morrison listens to us and stops funding fossil fuels."
Event organiser, Natasha, has made an impassioned call on the Morrison government to stop funding the fossil fuel industry.
"Young people are angry we're seeing climate disaster after climate disaster," she said.
"We know fossil fuels are causing this and the Morrison government continues to subside and support the fossil fuel industry such as the Kurri Kurri gas plant.
"They tell young people they have a climate solution and climate plans, yet these are all empty words.
"It's absolutely despicable for them to be saying that as they continue to support the fossil fuel industry."
Hundreds of thousands of school students are set to protest across the country today.
"Students are striking because they are terrified of the future they are inheriting and horrified by the unequal implications for others," Dr Blanche Verlie, a climate justice expert in the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, said.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison left his Kirribilli house early this morning before the planned protest outside his front gate at midday.
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Protesters disrupt Sydney freight trains
Meanwhile, another climate change protester disrupted freight trains in Sydney this morning.
Police attended the scene at Tempe where the demonstrator suspended herself from a pole over the rail bridge at a canal near Qantas Drive.
Officers managed to get the protester down from the rail bridge where she was then arrested and taken to Mascot Police Station.
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Another woman she climbed onto a freight train at Marrickville about 10.45am as part of Blockade Australia's ongoing climate protests.
She too was arrested and taken to Mascot Police Station.
Police said "charges are anticipated" for both women.
It comes as the NSW Government vowed to crackdown on unauthorised protesters who disrupt traffic.
The Roads Amendment Regulation 2022 will be made to make it an offence to disrupt any bridge or tunnel across Greater Sydney.
The regulation is made under section 144G of the Roads Act 1993, but currently only applies to disruption on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Section 144G carries a maximum penalty of 200 penalty units ($22,000) or imprisonment for two years, or both.
