South Australia rushes through anti-protest laws as activists rally outside oil and gas conference

Climate activists face large penalties and three-month jail terms in bipartisan move which appears to have been hashed out on talkback radio

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South Australia has rushed through anti-protest laws less than a day after a rally outside the annual oil and gas conference in Adelaide briefly closed traffic.

The extraordinary move – which appears to have been hashed out on talkback radio on Thursday morning – comes after the mining and energy minister, Tom Koutsantonis, told the industry the state government was “at your service”.