Dowling Road and global climate strike dominate council meeting

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Updated September 11 2019 - 11:22pm, first published 10:00pm
A 2018 Ballarat student strike for action to counter climate change. Photo: Luka Kauzlaric
A 2018 Ballarat student strike for action to counter climate change. Photo: Luka Kauzlaric

In a council meeting with an unusually sparse agenda, two issues dominated. The first was a motion, put forward by Councillor Belinda Coates to note and support a recent petition by 13 schoolchildren who wished to highlight their participation in the Global Climate strike on September 20.

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Jolyon Attwooll

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Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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