Welcome back to Drilled, I'm Amy Westervout.

Today, we continue our series on the criminalization

of environmental protest, the real free speech threat.

In this episode, we head to Australia

with reporter Lindel Rollins,

who's been reporting on how anti-protest laws

swept Australia.

Australia is a unique context for a few different reasons.

It's a major fossil fuel economy,

particularly with coal and now with gas.

It's also a place where the media is heavily influenced

by industry money, thanks in large part

to the fact that Robert Murdock owns a large percentage of it.

And it's a place where people voted last year overwhelmingly

for a government that would do something about climate.

It's really interesting to examine the criminalization trend

in that context.

And Lindel's done some excellent reporting

on that front over the last year.

Here she is with that story.

That's the sound of an activist at the Art Gallery of Western Australia,

spray painting an artwork with a logo of fossil fuel giant woodside.

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