Thousands of students from cities and towns across Australia left their classrooms, taking part in the latest march for action on climate change.
Look back at all the action from across the country in our blog.
Key events
Live updates
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That will finish us off for today
Thanks for sticking around.
You can read a wrap of all of the action from today's protests here.
Until next time, stay frosty.
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'Hotter than Harry Styles' in Perth
Hundreds of people in Perth descended on the Supreme Court Gardens demanding the Morrison government switch its gas-fired COVID-19 economic recovery plan to a renewable energy one.
They also want Woodside to abandon plans for its Scarborough gas project in WA's north.
Among the crowd were high school and university students, even a few primary school students. Parents with small babies attended, as did many grandparents.
Rally organiser Pia O'Flynn said government inaction had prompted her involvement.
"I have been striking school for almost two-and-a-half years now and in this time the government has failed to produce climate solutions which guarantee me and future generations a liveable future," Ms O'Flynn said.
Another organiser, Mena Tabeshfar, agrees climate inaction by government left her with no other option but to act.
"I and many other people want a secure and safe future," Ms Tabshabar said.
"The government is currently investing billions of dollars of public money into the gas industry. The choice will have disastrous consequences for both the economy and the environment."
Some students said their schools dissuaded them from attending while others said their schools were very supportive, even allowing the posting of flyers about the event on school grounds.
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Striking in FNQ
Year 12 student, Eli Zeppala (17) said she was happy about the turnout in Cairns but disappointed the Premier hadn't made the time to visit the strike, despite her visit to the Barron Gorge hydro-electric plant in the region that day.
"Especially if they're talking about investing in renewable energies, I mean that's the entire message of this climate strike," she said.
She also said it was also a great experience to be able to gather safely again.
"Going to these climate strikes and helping to organise them it gives me an opportunity to have my voice heard.
"While it's sad that I have to strike at all, I will keep striking until there is actual change."
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'I have learned more at the strike than in the classroom'
Bronwyn McIntyre went to the Melbourne rally with her 11 year old granddaughter.
"I'm just so scared about the future of our planet … if things keep going they way they are," she said.
"I'm just so scared if we keep on with our fossil fuel obsession, Scott Morrison's gas, that we won't have a future and they won't have a future and that makes me very sad."
She said the school strike was "not just for students" and she is "so glad to see them all out in force but they shouldn't have to be doing this."
Thiruavana Arunchalamelantheral, a year 12 student at Melbourne Girls College and the environment captain, said it was important to be at the strike because students have a responsibility to take care of the next generation.
"We think that it's outrageous, all the stuff that's happening," she said.
She dismissed comments from the acting premier that the students should have stayed at school.
"To be honest I have learned a lot more stuff at the strike than I learned in the classroom," she said.
"I think we should all be here, learn more stuff about what's happening, climate change, the environment and sustainability."
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Some of your comments
As a 56 year old I am ashamed at what we are leaving future generations. A dying planet with zero political will to do anything.
Full marks to these kids. Wish we had done more when we were kids.
-Danny Mortis
This is wonderful !!Power to the people ! So good to see our young people standing up for climate change/our planet even when our politicians still sit ignorant!
-Joanne
Its hypocritical for politicians and older folk to criticise the school kids for striking against climate inaction from our governments. The former only have to survive on our planet for the next 20- 30 years: she'll be right mate! School kids will have a dying planet in which they must survive for the next 70-80+ years. Anyone with young children or grandchildren surely would be supporting this strike.
-Ron Kerr
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From regional protests
On the Mornington Peninsula...
And in Mallee...
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One of the students at the rally in Melbourne
One of the speakers at the rally expressed his frustration at politicians for not doing enough to halt the damage from climate change.
"I'm so, so angry about what's going to happen to my future," he said.
"We didn't make this mess and we're going to have to clean it up.
"We can't vote but we can join the military. We can take a bullet for our country, but we can't vote for the future of our country."
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Didn’t realise this was on today. Explains why there were so many school students running around Westfield Southland shopping centre mid morning?………
-Deb Jahans
Deb, are you suggesting that some kids have used today to just skip out on school?
Naughty naughty.
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And in the nation's capital
About 300 people have gathered at Canberra's Glebe Park to protest against climate change. Among the protesters are Canberra students on strike from school.
They are demanding the federal government cease funding gas and coal projects, and instead invest in renewable energy, securing jobs and engaging the Indigenous community for land management.
High school student Neive said she was protesting for a better future.
"I think all of us we're just very fed up with the lack of action against climate change, our government not wanting to do anything about it," she said.
Another student, Jessica, said she hoped the voices of young people would be heard.
"I want a better future for my younger sister, and my future family members and just the future generations," she said.
It is the first time the School Strike 4 Climate Action protests have occurred across the country since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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More signs from Melbourne
And this from Greens leader Adam Bandt.
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The scenes in Adelaide
Organisers say about 2,000 students and young people have converged on Victoria Square to raise awareness about the threat of climate change.
Marchers rallied at the square before heading along King William Street, blocking traffic.
Helen Taylor's son Leif Justham was killed by a truck as he cycled around Australia raising awareness around global warming.
Ms Taylor told the rally she attended to carry on Leif's legacy.
"Together we thought the only thing we can do is try and share his story as far and as wide as he can so that even though nothing will bring him back, at least he'll live on through others and through his story."
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By Michael Doyle
Students strike in Brisbane's King George Square
Hundreds of protesters have gathered in King George Square as part of the nation-wide School Strike 4 Climate event.
Protesters are demanding no new coal, oil or gas projects, a target of 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030 and to run a “just” transition and job creation for all fossil-fuel workers and communities.
Erin Shutter was among the students who walked out of class today.
She said she was fighting for her future.
“We lost a lot of momentum last year with COVID-19 so we’re just trying to build it back up again.”
Reporting by Jessica Ross.
By Michael Doyle
Thousands flock to Treasury Gardens in Melbourne
Thousands of Students from across Victoria have gathered in Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens to protest the government’s actions on Climate change.
Although the rally has been organised by students there are many different groups of people in attendance.
The Australia-wide protests mark the first school climate strike since the start of the pandemic last year.
Event organisers are calling on the federal government to fund more renewable-energy initiatives and First Nations-led projects to protect the environment.
Photos and reporting by Gemala Darmadi.
By Michael Doyle
More from the Sydney strike
A key issue for many here is the Morrison government’s decision to spend $600m to build a new gas-fired power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
Speakers in the NSW capital are passionately against the project — central to the movement’s aims of no coal, oil or gas projects.
By Michael Doyle
Greens leader heading to Melbourne's strike
Greens leader Adam Bandt is on a full tram heading to the climate strike event in Melborne's Treasury Gardens.
By Michael Doyle
More from our readers
I hope the government gets the message and listens to the future instead of living in the past.
-Paul H
They say these kids are the future. Yet they know nothing of the real world. When they work and have to travel daily for work or kids then they will sing a different tune.
-Steve
We should empower and assist these young people in every way possible. They will be dealing with the effects of climate change long after we're gone.
-Alex
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