Climate Emergency Launch

Monday, 22nd September, 2008

Queensland Climate Emergency Week launched in spectacular fashion on Monday morning with a sit-in of the Prime Minister's Electoral Office in Brisbane.

A small group, comprised of the PM's Griffith constituents, occupied the office through the morning to highlight the consequences of the Federal government signing onto the interim emmission targets recommended by the Garnaut review. They have requested a meeting with the PM as members of his electorate to discuss emission reduction scenarios after the release of the Garnaut review.


The sit-in recieved national press coverage, and is the first of what will be many MP office occupation across the country over the coming months, staged to highlight the need for 2020 emission targets to stabilise dangerous climate change and to protect Australia's natural heritage assets in perpetuity.

The launch was coupled with a public forum that evening in the CBD with some 50 representatives of social justice, student and environmental organisations for information sharing, cross-fertilisation and importantly to discuss principles, strategies and tactics to build upon the people's movement for climate action in Queensland.

Media Coverage of Day One
The Courier Mail: Protesters Storm the PMs Office
The Brisbane Times: PMs Office Targeted by Climate Protesters
The Brisbane Times: Activists Refuse to Leave Rudd's Office
The Sunshine Coast Daily: Queensland Protesters Declare Climate Emergency

Also coverage in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald and the West Australian and the Melbourne Herald Sun.

For video footage of the event, courtesy of QUT News, see here.