Hunger strike takes toll

PROTESTERS are growing shaky as they enter the fourth day of their week-long climate action hunger strike, with some politicians beginning to take notice.

A handful of Extinction Rebellion’s activists have camped out on Parliament Lawns for their latest public protest – a seven-day hunger strike.

Since the strike began on Friday, at least three more hunger strikers have joined the original group of five calling on the federal government to cease subsidising and approving coal and gas projects.

Hunger striker and PhD student Micah Landon-Lane was feeling “a bit shaky” on Sunday afternoon.

“How far does this have to go until my government takes the climate crisis seriously and follows basic scientific advice by stopping taxpayer subsidies to the fossil fuel industry?” he said.

The group said Climate Change Minister Roger Jaensch and Legislative Council members Rob Valentine and Rosemary Armitage were intending to meet them.

The strike will end on Thursday evening.