Climate Justice - Our Responsibility?

CHRISTIAN SLATTERY
Online only - 1 December 2015
Last Friday, over 50,000 ordinary Victorians packed the streets of Melbourne to demand tougher global policies on climate change. Reflecting the indiscriminate effects of a warming world, the crowd was flooded with people from a myriad of backgrounds; ten-year olds marched with their grandparents, CFA volunteers marched alongside teachers and university lecturers marched shoulder to shoulder with their students. However, while the rally was mostly inclusive and cross-sectional, one group was noticeably absent; only six students from Melbourne Law School turned out, and this despite an endorsement by the Melbourne University Law Students’ Society of the march.
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