20 September, 2019

'This crisis, it affects everyone': Organisers say 100,000 at Melbourne's climate strike

Banging drums, chanting and singing, tens of thousands of Victorian school children descended on Melbourne's CBD to demand action on climate change.
Protesters start gathering outside the Old Treasury Building.
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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