AUSSIE KIDS SKIP SCHOOL FOR MASS CLIMATE PROTEST
SYDNEY AFP NOV30,2018- Thousands of Australian students skipped school Friday to join nationwide protests demanding government action on climate change.
The demonstrations were held as more than a hundred bushfires blazed in scorching temperatures in the northeast and a day after Indian mining firm Adani vowed to go ahead with a massive and controversial coal mine.
Primary and secondary students rallied in state capitals and rural areas across the country, in defiance of Prime Minister Scott Morrison who earlier said kids should stay in the classroom.
“Our Prime Minister thinks we should be in school right now and maybe you should be,”13 year-old student Siniva Esera told a crowd of more than a thousand in Sydney.
“But how can we sit by and not do anything to protect the future of this planet,”she added, to a rapturous applause.