This week, our voices made it all the way to Canberra when Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi tabled the petition in the Senate and said:
“We have to act like our country is on fire, because it literally is! The Government must recognise the crisis we're in and declare a climate emergency. The massive number of people signing on to this climate emergency petition just reinforces that Australians over overwhelmingly concerned about the climate breakdown. Every moment the Government refuses to take the climate meltdown seriously is a moment they put us all at extreme risk."
More than 126,000 of us have come together to send a message to the PM, and Senator Faruqi tabling this petition in the Senate is an important step in keeping the climate emergency on the national agenda.
I want to thank Senator Faruqi for hearing our voice, for bringing us all to Canberra. We won't stop making noise.
Kate Ahmad.