Thousands of protesters march on Labor's national conference, causing traffic chaos in Queensland's capital.
abc.net.au/news/qld-cfmeu-protesters-construction-alp-conference-get-up-labor/102740274Thousands of environmental and union protesters are marching on Labor's national conference in Brisbane — the first held while in government in a decade and since former prime minister Julia Gillard.
Get Up and Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union members are headed to the party's decision-making forum in South Brisbane today, in protest of climate change, the housing crisis and worker safety.GetUp CEO and Widjabul Wia-bal woman Larissa Baldwin-Roberts said First Nations people were at the "forefront of solutions to the climate change crisis".
"If Labor wants to hear how to lead on environmental solutions all they have to do is ask, we've been doing the work for absent governments for over a decade," she said. The CFMEU is running campaigns on the housing crisis, and "stop this killer stone", calling on the use of artificial stone to cease.
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