In October 2014, a group of thirty young Pacific Islanders—the Pacific Climate Warriors—came to Australia to dramatise the dangers of climate change. 

Organised by 350 Pacific, the Warriors and their supporters blockaded Newcastle’s coal port with traditional canoes to highlight the links between Australia’s coal industry, global warming, and their homes. Pacific Warrior Milañ Loeak, daughter of the president of the Marshall Islands, explained: 

‘We’re blockading the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle to show that elsewhere in the world, whole nations are paying the price for Australia’s coal and gas wealth’.