Climate activists occupy Wong's office

ADELAIDE— On June 5 — World Environment Day — climate change activists occupied the Adelaide office of federal climate change minister Penny Wong for more than an hour. They urged Wong to abandon the government's suicidal climate policy.

The protest was organised by the Climate Emergency Action Network. CLEAN said it wanted Wong to sign on to a "climate emergency declaration".

CLEAN spokesperson John Rice said: "The government doesn't truly appreciate the urgency of dealing with runaway climate change. There are clear solutions available through renewable energy technology. Building and maintaining that technology will be a generator of many new jobs. We can see this, but they can't. Obviously, the penny hasn't dropped for them."

The group also invited Wong to speak at the June 13 Climate Emergency protest to read out the declaration. "We've saved a spot for her on the podium, she only has to show up", Rice said.

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