Hunter students prepare for Newcastle School Strike 4 Climate

Member of the organising committee and Hunter School of the Performing Arts year 10 student Abigail Goodsir, 15, said the climate crisis had arrived.

"We're trying to get people to vote more climate consciously and us as students, because we can't do that, we're trying to strike to influence the people around us and the government to have the environment in mind when they next vote," she said.

"If they're not going to act like adults and protect our future then we're going to have to step up and start taking action.

"It shouldn't be like that, we shouldn't have to be stressing about the current politics because our futures are in danger, we should be doing what kids do instead of being invested in politics and the climate crisis."

Abigail said students were calling for the government to stop funding the fossil fuel industry; a carbon net zero goal by 2030 and no new coal, oil or gas projects; 100 per cent renewable energy generation and exports by 2030; funding for transition and to create jobs for workers in fossil fuels and their communities; and justice for First Nations people.

"Personally I have a lot of anxiety about my future and what it's going to look like because of the current climate crisis, so I try to invest all of that worry and anxiety into action," she said.

"We're putting all our stress into action to try and save our future while we still can."

The event will start at 12pm in Civic Park with speeches from students, scientists and people who responded to the recent floods.

She said students would then march along Darby Street to Nesca Park.

"It's really good to go and really makes me feel not alone and that other people feel this way about their future and that we can fight together and we're not all isolated and there can be a solution.

"There are plenty of us that are all fighting for the same thing and going to these events and feeling that you're not alone and seeing a solution is so close is really empowering."

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