Thanks for that Mr Daley, let us hope that you will become the new Premier of NSW.  Good on you for supporting the school climate change strike.      

And in related news -

"A Greens senator was tonight forced to make an embarrassing public apology after telling The West Australian columnist Gemma Tognini to “shut the f… up” and calling her a “right wing nut job” for her article saying students skipping school to protest for action on climate change were being used as political pawns.

Senator Jordon Steele-John, who Tognini said she had never spoke to, lashed out at the writer on Twitter today."

https://thewest.com.au/politics/greens/greens-senator-jordon-steele-john-apologi...

Obviously we can't have people holding alternative views.


If kids really want to show how committed they are they should give up some free time on the weekends.

Also give up their Iphones, walk instead of relying on mums/dads taxi.

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 15^th, 2019 at 12:28pm:



But it probably wouldn't, which tells us it is more about the publicity than saving the earth.

It would make the same amount of difference to the earth. It doesn't listen to tales of woe.

Then of course there is that fabulous climate model that predicts if the Paris Agreement reaches all its goals it would ave the earth about 0.1ºC.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Mar 15^th, 2019 at 12:34pm:



Really? Where did I do that. The blame should be sheeted home to the "educators" be they parents or the schools.

They didn't come across this "knowledge" intrinsically.

And of course the unions are fully supportive as well as the Greens. It just might have something to do with the upcoming election.

lee wrote on Mar 15^th, 2019 at 12:39pm:


It's happening in about 1,700 cities in more than 100 countries.

Are they all getting behind our election?

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 15^th, 2019 at 12:45pm:


No petal.

So the Australian unions are behind the global marches are they? Thanks for telling us.

Climate change protest draws thousands of students into the city   

March 15, 2019
The Age

The city is awash with students as workers head out for their lunch break on Friday, with the school strike for climate change drawing thousands into Melbourne's CBD.

Students are gathering at the Old Treasury Building at midday on Friday, where speeches will outline the reasons behind the strike action.




Thousands of children are expected to walk out of their classrooms for a global climate strike amid growing anger at the failure of politicians to tackle the escalating crisis.

Based on social media engagement, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition is expecting about 15,000 to 20,000 students to attend in Melbourne.


The crowd started marching at 1.15pm, heading west along Collins Street, up Russell Street, right on Bourke Street and then south on Spring Street before ending at Treasury Gardens.


Isabella Morgan skipped school to protest the government’s inaction on climate change.

Isabella Morgan, a year 9 student from the Academy of Mary Immaculate in Fitzroy, said she was skipping school to protest the government’s inaction on climate change. She’s clutching a large handmade sign that reads: ‘will you explain to my children what polar bears were?’

Her Catholic school was happy for students to attend the event, as they long as they received signed permission from their parents.

“The earth is melting, it’s heating up, the deserts are becoming hotter,” she said. “So many people are affected.”   



Mimi Vale travelled for three hours by train to get to the rally.

The 10-year-old lives on a drought-ravaged farm in the small town of Toora, Gippsland, and has witnessed the impacts of climate change first- hand. There’s no grass for her family’s cattle to feed on, so the Foster Primary School student has to handfeed them. She was born two weeks before Black Saturday and has lived through numerous bushfires.

“If we don’t act fast, the world is going to end,” she says.

She spent hours making a placard for the rally. ‘It’s all a theory but so is gravity,’ it reads.

Julian De Marco, a year 10 student at Balwyn High School, said students had to take a stand against climate change because the government wasn’t.

“Our government is more interested about staying in power than doing something about climate change,” he said.   

“We have the solutions, we need to start investing in renewable energy.”

Students stretch for as far as the eye can see, with event organisers estimating that 20,000 people have flocked to Melbourne’s CBD. The intersection of Collins and Springs streets is closed to traffic.

State, Catholic and private school students have broken into a series of chants and many are clutching handmade placards.

“Students united, we’ll never be divided,” they shout.

“Hey ho, hey ho, fossil fuels they have to go.”

Some students have defied their teacher’s orders by attending the rally.

Hazera, a year 9 student from Pascoe Vale Girls College, said one of her teachers told her attending the rally would achieve nothing.

“We are the future generation that has to live in this world,” she said.

“We came here on our own will.”   

She’s calling for an end to coal-fired power stations and more renewable energy. The teenager is carrying a placard that reads: ‘climate change will kill me before school does’.

Commuters are being encouraged to use the City Loop trains instead.

"Yarra Trams will respond to any disruptions, including diverting services along different streets through the city if needed," a Public Transport Victoria spokesman said.

Police are also in attendance.

Thanks Greggerypeccary.  It also looks like a big turn out in Sydney as well.