As rumours circulated about the PM having perhaps taken off to
Hawaii for a holiday with his family as a well set in nationwide
bushfire crisis continued, hundreds of student climate activists
gathered out front of Kirribilli House on 19 December,
demanding leadership from an absent Scott Morrison.
Some of the activists set up tents announcing that they were
going to wait out the front of the PM's Sydney residence until
he returned and dealt with the unprecedented fires, which have come
on the back of his gaping lack of action on the climate
emergency.
Faced with so many peaceful protesters calling on the government
to take action – rather than continue on with its
increasingly unviable climate change denying stance – state
authorities responded in the only way they know how: using brute
force.
