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ARTICLE · 01 JANUARY 2020

Climate activists bring Sydney traffic to a standstill

The anti-fossil fuel protest was designed to raise awareness about the human-caused climate and ecological emergency.

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On Friday morning, the prime minister apologised to the nation for going on holiday whilst half the country was burning and promised he'd return. However, "fair go" Scomo forgot to mention that he was already here.

At 7.15 am on 20 December, the PM appeared in the Sydney CBD dressed as Santa, bearing gifts of coal. Miraculously, Morrison landed in a sleigh drawn by six reindeer at the intersection, where Pitt Street cuts across the Martin Place pedestrian mall, right near the Christmas tree.

Not only did the PM's surprise Christmas inspired arrival result in an entire strip of one of Sydney's busiest roads being covered in his favourite poison – coal – but Morrison, his reindeer and elves that appeared to have already expired, brought peak hour traffic to a halt for near on two hours.

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