The Greens say Labor is hopelessly out of touch with Australia\u2019s young people, after the government today mocked students preparing to walk out of classrooms for the national Climate Strike this Friday, November 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephen Bates MP, Greens Youth Spokesperson, asked the Education Minister if he supports students\u2019 right to strike for a safer climate and leave school this Friday to protest new coal and gas projects jeopardising their future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response, Labor MPs jeered from their seats and the Minister merely responded that \u201cthat school students should be at school during school hours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson on Education (Primary & Secondary), Senator Penny Allman-Payne said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKids are worried about the future. They know that Labor’s plan for more coal and gas will make global heating worse and on Friday, thousands will leave their classrooms in protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile the Prime Minister and the frontbench laughed, the education minister mocked the idea that students should exercise their democratic right to protest and said he wanted them \u2018at school\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve grown used to Labor\u2019s cowardice in the face of the climate crisis, but telling kids they should just shut up while they continue to open up new coal and gas shows how hopelessly captured and out-of-touch they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the government is going to ignore calls from young people to act on climate, then young people should ignore the education minister and take to the streets on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greens Youth spokesperson Stephen Bates said<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The decisions of this Government to push more coal and gas is harming the future of young people. Most high school students can\u2019t vote, climate protests help make their voices heard. “Clearly Labor needs to be reminded of their roots if they don\u2019t get why people strike.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens say Labor is hopelessly out of touch with Australia\u2019s young people, after the government today mocked students preparing to walk out of classrooms for the national Climate Strike this Friday, November 17. Stephen Bates MP, Greens Youth Spokesperson, asked the Education Minister if he supports students\u2019 right to strike for a safer climate … Continue reading “LABOR\u2019S RIDICULE OF STUDENT PROTESTERS A NEW LOW”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24038,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037\/revisions\/24038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Young people deserve to have their voices heard. Right now, they\u2019re inheriting a broken environment, economy, and worsening living conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n