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In Germany, disruptive protest demanding climate change mitigation policies has provoked popular and constitutional discussion. Commentators have questioned whether acts of illegality committed as civil disobedience should be treated distinctly from ‘ordinary’ criminality and punished more leniently. In other parts of the world, however, legislative activity has singled out the illegality involved in civil disobedience to the opposite end. Legislatures have introduced laws that radically increase penalties for existing offences involved in disruptive protest and blockades, conferred new powers on police, and created new offences for previously legal forms of protest. In this post I explore an Australian legislative trend of the last decade that specifically targets environmental civil disobedience by imposing additional criminal penalties upon its exercise. The Australian case study is a cautionary tale of what can follow a failure to recognise democratic value in civil disobedience and treat it with constitutional nuance. CC BY-SA 4.0 Hicks, Liz animal rights Civil Disobedience Climate Crisis Environmental Protection Klimakrise Ziviler Ungehorsam 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/environmental-protest-and-civil-disobedience-in-australia/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20230801-012141-0 230801 10.17176/20230801-012141-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)