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Newcastle Greens councillors Charlotte McCabe and John Mackenzie took part in the stunt during Tuesday's meeting.

This week’s Newspoll, conducted April 20-23 from a sample of 1,538, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, unchanged from last week. Primary votes were 37% Labor (up one), 36% Coalition (up one), 11% Greens (down one), 4% UAP (steady), 3% One Nation (down one) and 9% for all Others (steady).

From marginal seats with diverse communities to blue-ribbon ones with climate-focused independents, voters are fed up with political spin and are seeking policy action on big issues like the cost of living and climate change.

Swan and Hasluck could be among the seats to fall if Labor gets a swing just one-third as big as Mark McGowan’s at state level

For re-elected Emmanuel Macron, focus is quickly shifting to legislative elections in June when, the readout from Sunday's runoff win suggests, he may struggle to gain the clear legislative majority that French voters tend to bestow on their presidents.

Labor has maintained unchanged its solid two-party leads in both Newspoll and the Australian Financial Review’s Ipsos poll.

Currently, the council has 40 Labour councillors, 16 Conservative councillors, three Liberal Democrat councillors and three Green councillors.

Warnings of dramatically escalating extinctions in Australia over the next two decades seem to be falling on deaf ears

Protesters who took to Newcastle harbour on Sunday say neither major political party has credible policies to address climate change or help workers transition away from the coal industry.

Political Editor Liam Thorp takes an in depth look at the seismic changes coming to Liverpool, its council and its politics and the potentially explosive 12 months ahead

"Both leaders are getting away from what they really need to be talking about and offering," coal miner and Pub Test panellist, Bernie Wilson, said.