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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily os It's Friday,

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Speaker 2: the seventeenth of November. I'm Emma Gillespie.

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Speaker 3: I'm beliefit Simon's climate change is here.

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Speaker 4: It is terrifying and it is just the beginning.

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Speaker 5: This fire emergency has been raging since Monday.

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Speaker 4: Flight evacuations continued into the night across the Gippsland region.

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Speaker 2: Today, thousands of young people are expected to skip school

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Speaker 2: to strike for climate action. If we don't stand up

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Speaker 2: against these politicians who will not listen, if we don't

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Speaker 2: make them, I guess our future doesn't look as good.

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Speaker 4: If we continue on the trajectory that we are on.

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Speaker 4: The precious places, landscapes, animals and plans that we think

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Speaker 4: for our kids and grandkids.

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Speaker 3: The Schools Strike for Climate has been gaining momentum in

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Speaker 2: We'll have more on who's protesting and where, what they're

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Speaker 2: it in today's Deep Dive. But first, really an update

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Speaker 3: Yes, Australia has been warned it has three months to

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Speaker 3: It comes after former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews pulled out

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Speaker 2: The Federal Transport Minister Catherine King has acted fifty rail

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Speaker 2: and road projects across the country after an independent review

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Speaker 3: Australian tennis player Nick Kirios has said the stars would

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Speaker 3: make a successful comeback to tennis. Once ranked thirteenth in

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Speaker 2: And the good news, Coles has announced its quiet Hour

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Speaker 2: Thousands of students across Australia are going on strike today

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Speaker 3: Now today we are going to hear from one of

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Speaker 2: Yes, so this is a group of student activists protest

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Speaker 2: climate Hello, min, thank you so much for making time

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Speaker 5: Well, school strike is all about empowering young people to

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Speaker 6: And we have a responsibility to do something about it.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm in Sydney. There's a rally happening down the

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Speaker 2: We've seen in the news this week these doctor's certificates

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Speaker 5: Well, honestly, it's very frustrating that we even have to

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Speaker 6: That should be the government doing that. The government should

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Speaker 2: Have you got schoolmates friends you all going together? How

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Speaker 6: That's a great question. The main thing we want to

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Speaker 6: After the strike will listen to us.

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Speaker 5: We'll listen to young people, Indigenous communities and even our.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's empowering just to be organizing the

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Speaker 2: Now, obviously these young people are really passionate about this issue, Billy,

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Speaker 3: Yees, So the whole strike is trying to change what

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Speaker 2: Yes, So the Daily I was reached out to Tanya Plibersex,

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