My heart bleeds for those investors who took a hit. But it doesn't bleed very much, remembering that investors on the stock exchange create no wealth whatsoever, merely acquire wealth and allocate wealth and sometimes (sob sob) lose wealth. Meanwhile their company is threatening a precious resource belonging to the Australian nation. Biters sometimes get bit.

This young man committed a crime and should get a jail sentence and a fine maybe not the maximum but how is he or his fellow protesters to learn that it is wrong to take the law into their own hands. The protest at Maules Creek is getting way out of hand and very dangerous. young people in dark clothes jumping in front of trucks loaded with bulldozers at 5am, young girls laying under the bucket of a bulldozer, a young man under a truck ladened with train line bridge parts. One of our young are going to get killed if the law does not start putting these kids in jail to show them there are consequences for there actions.

Maules Creek Resident "The protest at Maules Creek is getting way out of hand"

Yet before it was "low key".

These supposedly earnest activists are just shallow attention-seeking publicity sluts, who only jump on a bandwagon when enough other people do.

Pathetic.