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Thunberg with a sign reading in Swedish “School strike for the Climate” while wearing the cap in Stockholm on Friday that high school students typically wear in Sweden upon graduation.

Greta Thunberg’s school climate strikes come to an end after 251 weeks

“When I started striking in 2018 I could never have expected that it would lead to anything,” Thunberg wrote on Twitter. “We’re still here, and we aren’t planning on going anywhere.”

  • Remy Tumin

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People demonstrate outside the European Court on Wednesday, when a group of Swiss retirees took their government to the top European court for failing to take stronger action on climate change.

Little Vanuatu just got 192 countries to agree with it

A tiny Pacific Island nation has pulled off the kind of diplomatic win that can elude global superpowers.

  • Somini Sengupta
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, centre, attends a demonstration by youth-led organisation Aurora, in Stockholm, Sweden, in November. Her sign says “Now we sue the state”.

Court allows Greta Thunberg, activists to sue Sweden over climate

Their youth-led Aurora group says “the Swedish state does not treat the climate crisis as a crisis”.

  • Johan Ahlander
Delaying kindergarten entry is far more common among wealthy families than poorer ones.

‘Elitism and segregation’: Without a coherent policy, schools are left in sector-driven fiasco

Harmony in the broader community comes from integration, exposure to diversity and a breaking down of barriers, all learnt at public schools.

Greta Thunberg has turned up to Davos and turned up the dial.

‘Fuelling the destruction of the planet’: Greta Thunberg lashes energy giants at Davos

Greta Thunberg has called on the global energy industry and its financiers to end all fossil fuel investments at a high-profile meeting in Davos with the head of the International Energy Agency.

  • Maha El Dahan

Submarine spending wasteful and a threat to Australian sovereignty

The subs are an expensive way of adding to our self-defence capabilities, compared to underwater drones and smart mines, and long-range missiles.

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Police officers carry Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg away.

Greta Thunberg detained by police during German coal village protests

The climate campaigner was detained among a group of activists protesting against the expansion of a coal mine in the west of the country.

A police officer looks on as a luxury vehicle which was seized in a case against media influencer Andrew Tate, is towed away, on the outskirts of Bucharest.

Authorities investigating Andrew Tate seize luxury cars worth millions of dollars

Romanian authorities have towed away a fleet of luxury cars worth millions of dollars in the case involving accused human trafficker Andrew Tate.

  • Stephen McGrath and Vadim Ghirda
Andrew Tate leaves the Court of Appeal, in Bucharest, Romania.

To mitigate Tate’s hate, more men must step up to the plate

Young men seem attracted to Andrew Tate’s toxic views, but that won’t change unless other men call out his misogyny.

  • Daisy Turnbull
Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate composite

Smart and humane versus hateful and toxic: We need more Thunbergs and fewer Tates

Let’s ignore bad behaviour this year and invest in hope for the future.

  • Jenna Price

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