Organisers estimate 300,000 Australians have gathered at
climate change rallies around the country in one of the largest protest events in the nation's history.
More than 2,500 Australian businesses took part, either closing their doors or allowing their employees to walk off the job.
The Australian protesters called for the Federal Government to commit to:
• No new coal, oil or gas projects
• 100 per cent renewable energy generation and exports by 2030
• Funding for "a just transition and job creation for all fossil fuel industry workers and communities"
I believe that this issue has reached a
”Tipping Point. A tipping point is when an issue slowly builds to a critical mass, a threshold in which it continues to grow force under its own momentum and becomes impossible to reverse. Even our bone-headed conservative politicians will have to take action.
Our Local Scene- you'll note even Mary Poppins was there
Around a thousand people have turned up to today's Climate strike in Bowral.
The crowd heard from a number of school students who spoke about the need for Governments to take action on climate change.
The students came from a range of different schools including public and private and Spokesperson Stephanie Jedrasiak says they didn't hear of any schools discouraging students from attending.
She insists the message is that students want to be heard and want a climate change emergency to be declared.
A number of letters have been sent to our local politicians to re - iterate this.
Local resident and former Labor Minister Minister Peter Garratt was also in attendance and believes it sends a very strong message that the time for denial is over.
Pretty small beer compared with your rally in Melbourne, Alan, but pretty good for a small rural area. There probably would have been a larger attendance but the weather was threatening and there was only street parking.
When I arrived, knackered after Gym and dog-walking, I found that I would have had to park a kilometre away and so I squibbed it.