Top End students strike for action on climate change

Scores of students in Darwin joined thousands of others throughout Australia on Friday in striking for more action from politicians on climate change.

SCORES of students in Darwin joined thousands of others throughout Australia on Friday in striking for more action from politicians on climate change.

Among those to march on the Territory’s Parliament House was 16-year-old Mikayla Johnson who said she was participating in the school strike because “our planet is important and we need to look after it”.

Darwin school students strike for climate action outside Parliament House. Picture: Katrina Bridgeford.

“We need to get people thinking and get people doing, so I feel like what we’re doing is then putting pressure on other outside forces to do something,” she said.

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Fellow student Bridgette Davies said the group had come to demand answers.

“I think we’re all extremely frustrated, especially as young people, that we’re still having to come down to these sorts of strikes,” she said.

“Each year they just grow, more people come and we just want to know — what's it going to take?”