Community Service

Student Day of Action

On the last day of term three four teachers and sixty two students travelled by train to Treasury Gardens to be part of the Student  Day of Action on Climate Change. It was a great day of solidarity with so many other schools, work, church and union groups who gathered to listen to several speakers voice their concern about climate change. The day had a focus on three demands for governments.

1 No new coal, oil and gas projects, including the Adani mine.

2 100%  renewable energy generation and exports by 2030.

3 Fund a just transition and job creation for all fossil fuel workers and communities.

It was an amazing response from so many Killester students but also in Melbourne, across the country and the world.  Thank you to the teachers who supported them, Mr Halliday, Ms Heyes, and Ms Jamieson.  Hopefully this will lead to the governments of the world taking more concrete actions to preserve our environment for  future generations.

Peter O'Neill,  Mission and Identity Coordinator