Australia’s student strikers for climate believed they could change their future. Where are they now?

The movement that thousands of young people had hoped might change their future has, on the face of it, petered out. Lockdowns forced the school strike movement online preventing the handing of the torch to the next year level. She joined the school strike movement in early 2019 and soon found herself outside Kirribilli House bellowing chants down a megaphone as she completed high school. “A lot of people became really uncertain as to how to go about continuing to fight.”The school strike movement stumbled, splintered and then disintegrated. View image in fullscreen Photographs of rallies adorn the walls of the Australia Youth Climate Coalition office in Sydney.