Banging drums, chanting and singing, tens of thousands of Victorian school children descended on Melbourne's CBD to demand action on climate change.
| Banging drums, chanting and singing, tens of thousands of Victorian school children descended on Melbourne's CBD to demand action on climate change. |
Event organisers say 100,000 people filled Treasury Gardens and Spring Street - dwarfing the crowd that attended a strike in March.
Almost 300,000 people marched in cities across Australia for the coordinated rallies - as part of the global movement - but Melbourne hosted the largest turn out.
Read the story from The Age by Sumeyya Ilanbey, Charlotte Grieve and Paul Sakkal - “'This crisis, it affects everyone': Organisers say 100,000 at Melbourne's climate strike.”.
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