Students strike for government action on climate change

It's been five years since the first national school strike for climate action. Today student protesters are again rallying around the country.

Transcript

00:00 Hundreds of students are skipping school today and marching through the streets of Melbourne

00:06 calling for climate action.

00:08 Traffic has been stopped several times with the students sitting down at major intersections

00:13 for chants and speeches.

00:15 The students are stopping five times on this march through the CBD which started at Flagstaff

00:19 Gardens and will end at the Victorian Labor Office.

00:23 The protest had humble beginnings starting with just four students protesting at Parliament

00:28 on Tuesday afternoon.

00:30 They were escorted out and feeling unheard by the government, they've organised today's

00:34 rally calling for urgent climate action.

00:37 Student organisers say it's not an inconvenience, it's an awakening.

00:41 The rally will finish this afternoon at the Victorian Parliament Office.

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