Australian students strike for climate action ahead of national election

Record ID: 1671604

  • Title: Australian students strike for climate action ahead of national election
  • Date: 6th May 2022
  • Summary: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (MAY 6, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING, HOLDING PLACARDS AND BANNERS AND CHANTING STUDENT HOLDING SIGN READING (English): "IF THE ENVIRONMENT WAS A BANK, IT WOULD’VE BEEN SAVED BY NOW!" SPEAKER TALKING TO CROWD (SOUNDBITE) (English) CLIMATE ACTIVIST, MANJOT KAUR, SAYING: “We have no choice but to rapidly cut our greenhouse emissions and I feel like a fool for saying that because it’s so obvious. I don’t want to have to tell any of you that. But for some reason, we keep having to repeat the same messages, even though you and I both know that it's common sense and it's common science.” CROWD HOLDING PLACARDS / CROWD LISTENING TO SPEAKER ON STAGE SIGN READING (English): "PLANET OVER PROFIT!" (SOUNDBITE) (English) 17-YEAR-OLD PROTESTER, ASHER, SAYING: “Yeah I’ve been to a few of these and they're usually pretty fun and it’s important to be protesting and be telling the government that we want climate action.” VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING (SOUNDBITE) (English) 67-YEAR-OLD PROTESTER, KEN, SAYING: “It’s great to see. They (the younger generation) are the future, so obviously they’re looking after their interests.” CROWD OF PROTESTERS GATHERING AT FRONT OF BUILDING WHICH HOLDS LIBERAL PARTY HEADQUARTERS SIGN READING (English): "WE NEED A HERO TO GET TO NET ZERO" (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT ON STRIKE, SAYING: “We’ve been ignored by our politicians for too long and in order to be taken seriously, we need to be causing major disruptions to business as usual.” STUDENTS ON STRIKE HOLDING BANNER READING (English): "THE WORLD IS CHANGING, WHY AREN’T WE?"
  • 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: LVA001611205052022RP1
  • 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.
    (Production: Cordelia Hsu, James Redmayne)
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