‘Wake up and smell the smoke': Bushfire protests spread to London

London: The signs jutting out above the crowd told the story. "Wake up and smell the smoke", one screamed. Another labelled Scott Morrison a "derro" and urged the Prime Minister to better compensate brave volunteers battling walls of flames around the country. Others mourned the deadly toll the bushfire emergency has inflicted on Australia's world-famous koalas.

Extinction Rebellion protesters outside Australia House in central London.

People protest in London at the drop of a hat but this lunchtime gathering outside Australia House felt different. A funereal tone radiated from about 1000 Londoners who gathered to warn that climate change had wrapped itself around the Australian summer and started squeezing.

Read the story from The Age by Bevan Shields - “‘Wake up and smell the smoke': Bushfire protests spread to London.”