It's been five years since the first national school strike for climate action. Today student protesters are again rallying around the country.
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00:00 Hundreds of students are skipping school today and marching through the streets of Melbourne
00:06 calling for climate action.
00:08 Traffic has been stopped several times with the students sitting down at major intersections
00:13 for chants and speeches.
00:15 The students are stopping five times on this march through the CBD which started at Flagstaff
00:19 Gardens and will end at the Victorian Labor Office.
00:23 The protest had humble beginnings starting with just four students protesting at Parliament
00:28 on Tuesday afternoon.
00:30 They were escorted out and feeling unheard by the government, they've organised today's
00:34 rally calling for urgent climate action.
00:37 Student organisers say it's not an inconvenience, it's an awakening.
00:41 The rally will finish this afternoon at the Victorian Parliament Office.
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