Tamworth School Strike 4 Climate marchers deliver letters to MPs, council for more to be done on climate change

Climate strikers in various cities across Australia took part in the School Strike 4 Climate event, with about 50 turning out to Bicentennial Park in Tamworth in readiness for a march across town.

Tamworth strikers delivered letters to the offices of Tamworth MP Kevin Anderson, New England MP Barnaby Joyce and Tamworth Regional Council.

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Teenage sisters Chiara and Davina Leabon organised the Tamworth march, because it was their "chance to tell the government to take meaningful action on climate change".

"They aren't doing enough at the moment and we can't vote so this is the only way for us to have a voice," Davina said.

"It's our future."

Chiara said Australia needed to "transition to renewables and we need to reach net zero within a decade or we'll be forced to confront year after year extreme weather events".

"Gas will not create the jobs Australia needs, but renewables will. We're asking our government to fund our future not gas," she said.

Husband and wife team Lynne and Peter Prisk took time out of their afternoon to march as well.

Mr Prisk said he felt "guilty about what we're leaving for our grandkids".

"We've got four grandkids and I really do feel guilty about the legacy that we're leaving them," he said.

Mrs Prisk said the government was taking the "wrong track" on a climate change response.

"Global emissions will only stop when they recognise that fossil fuels are pollutants and they have to get out of using them," she said.

"As someone once said, the dinosaurs never believed they'd be extinct. We have to look at what science says and not look at what investors think."

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