A group of St Patrick's College boys presented Catherine King MP with a petition on the climate emergency. Ms King addressed parliament in Canberra on the issue. Australia and nations all around the world need to take action to limit the effects of our changing climate, and adults and kids all around Australia know it. Recently I met with a group of students from Ballarat's St Patrick's College to accept a petition signed by hundreds of students calling on their leaders to do much better. These boys know that we need to act on climate change and that we need to do it now. The effects of climate change and our collective failure to act will be felt throughout their lives, if not necessarily ours. They will live in a world that is hotter, more extreme and more fire-prone than the world we older generations grew up in. Because of the Government's inaction they also will not get the opportunity to benefit from the positives that can come from acting on climate change, including new jobs in the green economy and renewable energy. They are left frustrated as we, their political leaders, are continually unable to actually deal with this issue. Rather than sitting down and accepting that, these boys have decided this is not good enough and have made their voices heard. I want to commend the boys of St Pat's for taking a stand. I am proud to join with them and all the students from my electorate who joined in the climate strike earlier this year in calling on the government and, this parliament and all our community leaders to finally act on climate change and work together for a better world. Catherine King is the Member for Ballarat and Opposition spokesperson for Infrastructure
A group of St Patrick's College boys presented Catherine King MP with a petition on the climate emergency. Ms King addressed parliament in Canberra on the issue.
Ms King receives the petition from the St Pat's students
Australia and nations all around the world need to take action to limit the effects of our changing climate, and adults and kids all around Australia know it.
Recently I met with a group of students from Ballarat's St Patrick's College to accept a petition signed by hundreds of students calling on their leaders to do much better.
These boys know that we need to act on climate change and that we need to do it now. The effects of climate change and our collective failure to act will be felt throughout their lives, if not necessarily ours.
They will live in a world that is hotter, more extreme and more fire-prone than the world we older generations grew up in. Because of the Government's inaction they also will not get the opportunity to benefit from the positives that can come from acting on climate change, including new jobs in the green economy and renewable energy.
They are left frustrated as we, their political leaders, are continually unable to actually deal with this issue.
Rather than sitting down and accepting that, these boys have decided this is not good enough and have made their voices heard.
I want to commend the boys of St Pat's for taking a stand.
I am proud to join with them and all the students from my electorate who joined in the climate strike earlier this year in calling on the government and, this parliament and all our community leaders to finally act on climate change and work together for a better world.
Catherine King is the Member for Ballarat and Opposition spokesperson for Infrastructure
