Organisers of a Brisbane traffic-stopping protest against Adani have vowed to do it again after people who glued their hands to the street were arrested.
But the hundreds of people who rallied on Friday evening have been told to consider the livelihoods of regional Queenslanders.
Six men and one woman were detained for breaching the peace but no charges were laid from the anti-coal mining action in Brisbane CBD.
Hundreds of activists stormed CBDs of Melbourne, Canberra, and Adelaide on Friday evening.
Socio-political movement Extinction Rebellion is hoping to pressure the Federal Government to declare a climate emergency and "end its reliance on coal".
A further action is planned in Brisbane for July 5, with organisers calling to "stop the cities to stop Adani" after labelling the protest a success.
"There isn't a question of how many people disapprove this mine," organiser Catherine Robertson from Uni Students for Climate Justice told AAP on Saturday.
"The Queensland Labor government just wanted to sweep the approvals through. They didn't want there to be be a huge reaction.
"They thought that most people would just take this lying down.
"The opposite has happened. The movement's only going to grow."
Australia SPECTRUM looks into the anti-coal protests which have intensified in the wake of the final approval for the Adani project.
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