- Title: Australian students strike for climate action ahead of national election
- Date: 6th May 2022
- Summary: STUDENT BAND PERFORMING SONG
- Embargoed: 20th May 2022 08:11
- Keywords: Australia Sydney climate change demand election strike students
- Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
- City: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Australia,Climate Change,Climate Policy and Regulation,Environment,General News
- Reuters ID: LVA002611205052022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hundreds of protesters, mostly teenagers, marched the streets of Sydney on Friday (May 6) to demand more action on climate change by the Australian government ahead of the national election.
School strikers, trade union members, university students and indigenous Australians held banners, waved placards and chanted as they marched through the city's central business district to gather outside the state headquarters of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal Party.
Climate change is a charged political issue in Australia, which is a major producer of coal and gas and has long been criticised for being one of the world's biggest carbon emitters on a per capita basis.
Australia, which goes to a general election on May 21, has a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but activists say that date is too distant.
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