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'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement (www.sbs.com.au)

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"You're condemning young people like me to a life of climate disasters — of course we have poor mental health issues!" cried protester Alexa Stuart, a 21-year-old from climate action group Rising Tide mid-way through Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's press conference today.

"When will you listen to young people?"

Albanese was announcing a $1 billion dollar increase to mental health access and support, including $500 million for Youth Specialist Care Centres. The funding announcement follows Opposition leader Peter Dutton's own pledge of $400 million towards mental health during his budget reply speech.

"Mr Albanese, you say you care about young people — and yet since getting elected your government has approved 33 new coal and gas projects!" Stuart yelled as she was hauled away by security.

The Australia Institute's Coal Mine Tracker says the federal government has approved 10 new coal mines since it was elected in May 2022 and there are another 22 proposals for new or expanded coal mines awaiting approval.

Two-thirds of young Australians believe climate concerns are having a negative impact on youth mental health, while over three in four young people are concerned about climate change, according to a survey conducted by YouGov sampling 1,000 Australian citizens aged 16-25 in 2023.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If LNP wins we will continue to burn coal as our primary source of energy for another 30 years.

This is what the ALP is actively trying to do, if you haven't been following along... They've approved new coal and gas extraction projects for 2050 and beyond. You know, when we're supposed to be at net 0???

When they announced a bunch of these last year we immediately called a bunch of snap protests at Labor mp offices around Melbourne and the only one who came to talk to us was Ged Kearny (everyone else either literally ran away or just rolled the shutters down), and all she did was offer excuses for why we actually have to keep digging up fossil fuels and burning them for decades to come.

And Tanya Plibersek goes on the news and has the audacity to lie and say they've approved no new projects, almost immediately after she approved a new project and expansions to another.

They're not doing anything to prevent this, they're not taking climate change seriously and they are sucking up to the industry at the expense of everyone else.