After Extinction Rebellion, Australian politicians are on notice - change is coming | Nicky Ison

Spurred by global movements to fight climate change, the federal election shows that if major parties won't change, voter habits willIf I were in London over Easter I would have been at Waterloo Bridge or Oxford Circus or Marble Arch, the protest sites for the Extinction Rebellion.Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a movement of tens of thousands of people that has for a week blocked traffic across the UK in simple but powerful acts of civil disobedience. These have ranged from activists gluing themselves to a pink boat in Oxford Circus to a string quartet playing in the middle of Waterloo Bridge. The aim is to force a national and global conversation about climate changes. Continue reading...