Disrupt Burrup Hub activists Nicholas Doyle, Tahlia Stolarski and Joana Partyka were arrested and charged on November 22, after the ABC handed over footage of them planning a non-violent direct action on August 1 in front of the Woodside CEO’s home.

The three have been charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.

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The ABC bowed to pressure and handed over Four Corners footage after having promised it would not.

This was confirmed in early December when West Australian Police visited three activists who had helped film the documentary Escalation having been assured the footage would not be handed to police.

In the lead-up to the Four Corners documentary, which screened in early October, police began pressuring the ABC to hand over dozens of hours of footage of DBH climate defenders planning a non-violent action outside Woodside CEO Meg O’Neil’s house.

The ABC journalists were present in the morning out front of O’Neil’s place when police arrested a handful of climate defenders: its officers were already there waiting for them.

DBH formed this year. Activists have been putting liberty on the line to expose the Woodside Burrup Hub project climate bomb and threat to significant First Nations’ cultural heritage sites.

DBH has also exposed the extraordinary extent that the powers that be will go to when cracking down on climate dissenters.

The activists, who simply care about the planet, have been framed as dangerous terrorists, necessitating raids and even pulling a gun.

Sydney Criminal Lawyers spoke to DBH’s Gerard Mazza about ABC’s betrayal of its code, the dangerous Woodside gas project and why the group........

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