'Defies common sense': Peter Dutton takes aim at school climate strikers

Peter Dutton has slammed school students who protested about inaction on climate change.

Peter Dutton has slammed school students who protested about inaction on climate change. Source: AAP

Peter Dutton has taken aim at school students who protested about inaction on climate change, saying they would be sitting in the dark without coal-fired power.


Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has laid the boot into Australian students who skipped school to

Nearly 40,000 students took the day off school last Friday to participate in strikes around the country.

Mr Dutton said it was "100 per cent right" to suggest people would be left to sit in the dark if coal-fired power was stripped from the grid for 48 hours.

 

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