One of the many notices going up across Townsville and Magnetic Island for a School Strike 4 Climate protest on The Strand March 15, so far apparently not picked up by the local media . When similar demonstrations were held in other parts of the nation, scoffing Queensland senator Matt Canavan , a government minister, described by Barnaby Joyce as possibly the brightest man in parliament , said the schoolchildren taking part were learning how to line up for the dole .
Other Queensland politicians regularly bash anyone concerned about global warming / climate change , Adani , variously describing them as terrorists , southerners , bearded , unemployed , on the pay of overseas masters, etc., etc., etc .
A member of the Katter rump , obsessed with crocodiles , recently made the bizarre claim that Queensland kids are turning to crime and booze because they can't swim due to crocodiles . Old Bob Katter regularly gets media coverage by going down to the seaside and glaring , mouth twisting , nose twitching , declaring crocs , cane toads and anything else that takes his fancy should be given the Gatling gun treatment .
No wonder Queensland kids want to strike when they see what is happening to large parts of Queensland , the Great Barrier Reef, the city recently blanketed in red dust , bushfires and drought prevailing in other parts of the nation . Listening to the climate change sceptics in the Coalition , LNP and assorted boneheads whose text messages flood Queensland newspapers is firing up the thinking schoolchildren .
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Notices have gone up in the north advertising a UA3 series of talks about Australia's rocket research , especially in the field of guided missiles .
