A man has been arrested following a protest at a government car storage facility in Fyshwick this morning.
Extinction Rebellion protestors disrupted politicians' commute to Parliament House by chaining themselves to the four gates of the Dairy Road car park, preventing government official drivers from leaving.
A 21-year-old man was arrested for trespassing and failing to provide details to police.
ACT Policing said the man, who is believed to be from Queensland, is due to face court today.
The protest was designed to draw attention to the lack of action the current government has taken to combat climate change, organisers said.
Australian Federal Police attended the rally, where there was no sign of violence or aggression from police or Extinction Rebellion protesters.
Clinical psychologist Jane Morton said the aim was to sound the alarm because this was the last Federal Budget before Australian representatives went to the international climate talks.
"This should be the budget that is funding the emergency transition that we desperately need and there's no indication that's happening," Ms Morton said.
"We need the government to declare a climate and ecological emergency and then act, making it the absolute priority like they did with the coronavirus."
READ ALSO:
- 'We will be left behind': ANU vice-chancellor calls for border plan
-
The great debt at the heart of the budget
-
Pialligo businesses bank on budget boost for Beltana Road
Melbourne member Violet Coco said the expectation was for Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to announce further investment in fossil fuel.
"After putting gas executives at the head of the Covid recovery, I think it's quite clear our government is invested in fossil fuels, which is obviously meaning death for our planet," she said.
"We need an emergency-speed transition to zero emissions and we need to start sucking carbon out of the atmosphere."
Ms Coco said the country was on track for 5 degrees of warming within 80 years.
"At 5 degrees of warming the planet can only sustain one billion people," she said.
"It is here and it is here now and it's this generation which are being born right now that are going to face the collapse."
Under the Paris Agreement, Australia committed to a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.
The Australian government has conceded that achieving its 2020 target "may prove challenging".
Australia will take part in talks at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in November this year, following the summits cancellation in 2020 due to coronavirus.
Global leaders will meet to discuss an objective to stabilise greenhouse gas at a level in order to prevent the planet from being uninhabitable in the future.
