International media coverage for climate rallies

Check out some of the media coverage from the climate rallies:

International media

BBC: Australians demand climate action
Thousands of demonstrators have rallied across Australia to demand greater government action to protect the environment from climate change.

The National Climate Emergency Rallies called on Australia to take the lead at the UN environment summit in December in Copenhagen. [MORE]

Reuters India: Australians demand more action on climate change
SYDNEY, June 13 (Reuters) - Hundreds of environmental activists took to the streets of Australia's main cities on Saturday, saying the Labor government was not doing enough on climate change.

The protests came ahead of a vote in the upper house Senate next week on the government's planned emissions trading scheme, which the protesters regard as inadequate. [MORE]

Australia Network News: Climate change demonstrations accross Australia
Thousands of people joined protests across Australia today, calling for the government to get serious about climate change.

Jean Kennedy reports climate change rallies were held in capital cities around the nation today.

In Sydney more than a thousand people marched through the city streets to the Prime Minister's Kevin Rudd's office. [MORE]

Taiwan News: 6000 climate activists rally in Australia
About 6,000 people have protested in state capitals across Australia against the government's response to climate change.

About 2,000 demonstrators marched on Saturday to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's office in Sydney, where they staged a short sit-down protest outdoors, demanding a reduction in coal power and carbon emissions. Rudd was not present at the time. [MORE]

Turkish Weekly: Thousands In Australia Rally To Urge Greater Environmental Protection
Protesters hold placards and banners during the 'National Climate Emergency Rally' in Sydney, Australia, 13 Jun 2009Thousands of demonstrators have rallied across Australia to demand greater government action to protect the environment. A series of so-called National Climate Emergency Rallies have been held across the country to demand Australia take the lead at the Copenhagen environment summit in December. [MORE]

Demotix: Climate Emergency Rallies in 7 cities in Australia
The climate action groups marched from Barangaroo through the Rocks and Circular Quay, finishing outside Australia's Labor Government Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Sydney office on Phillip Street. Around 3000 supporters and activists took part in the rally and the march. The Rally was an initiative of Australia's Climate Action Summit, when over 140 community climate groups came together in Canberra in February 2009 to plan community action on climate change. The Sydney rally took place in parellel to those of in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra and Hobart today. [MORE]

Australian media

The West Australian: Hundreds rally in Perth for climate change action
Several hundred people turned out to support a climate rally in Perth today as part of a national call to embrace renewable energy and scrap the Federal Government’s emissions trading scheme.

Thousands marched in similar protest actions in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney and Wollongong today.

The rallies are part of an Australia-wide bid to create new green jobs, scrap the emissions trading scheme, protect Australia’s forests and ban nuclear energy.

Today’s colourful lunchtime rally in Forrest Chase included information stalls, music and banners, along with passionate speeches from WA Greens senator Rachel Siewert and Greens MP for Fremantle Adele Carles, along with The Wilderness Society WA’s Peter Robertson [actually Jessica Chapman] and the Anti-Nuclear Alliance of WA’s Kate Vallentine. [MORE]

Canberra Times: Rally urges climate action
HUNDREDS of people rallied in Garema Place yesterday, calling on the Federal Government to do more to fight climate change.

It was one of eight rallies held simultaneously around the country. [MORE]

ABC online: Wong defends policy amid climate change protests
Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has defended the Government's policies on climate change, despite criticisms of them at protests around the nation today.

At a protest rally in central Sydney, streets were blocked off as more than 1,000 people marched through the city streets to the office of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Speakers condemned the Government's emissions trading scheme as inadequate and accused the Government of selling out to heavily polluting industries. [MORE]

Sydney Morning Herald:
Rally declares climate emergency
Environmentalists took to the streets yesterday to demand a greater Federal Government commitment to fight climate change.

The rallies attracted about 6000 people nationwide, and included environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Wilderness Society which want an emissions scheme ditched in favour of an alternative dubbed "Plan B", which includes the phasing out of coal-fired power stations. [MORE]

The Age: Climate activists blockade Rudd's office
Activists took to the streets and blockaded the prime minister's Sydney office protesting the Rudd government's response to climate change.

Streets were blocked off as protesters in Sydney marched from the harbour to Kevin Rudd's city office, where they staged a short sit-in protest against the carbon emissions scheme. [MORE]

Green Left Weekly: Thousands rally for 100% renewables by 2020
Thousands took the streets on June 13 for the National Climate Emergency Rallies. Protesters declared a climate emergency and demanded the Australian government take emergency action on climate change.

The rallies were an initiative of the Climate Action Summit held in Canberra in January and were supported by a wide range of climate action groups, unions and other organisations. [MORE]