At least 50 Victorian children have gone on strike over inaction on climate change, walking out of school and into their local MP's office.
Hundreds more could join them as social media sites spring up calling for students to walk out of school and protest at their local federal politicians' office rather than sit behind a desk.
Victorian school kids Callum Bridgefoot, 11, and Milou Albrecht and Harriet O'Shea Carre, both 14, have ignited the growing movement in Australia, finding inspiration in Swedish teen Greta Thunberg who has been striking for more than a month.
On their second day of striking, the Aussie teens visited Labor Bendigo MP Lisa Chesters' office with at least 50 others, all aged between 10 and 18.
"I first felt that level of frustration - 'the decisions you're making in Canberra will affect us the longest because we're the children'," Ms Chesters told AAP.
"They said: 'We can't vote, we're too young to vote but you're making decisions that affect us so we want you to listen to us and hear our concerns and be our voice.'"
The group named inaction on climate change, the use of plastics, clean energy, deforestation and the proposed Adani coalmine as their top concerns.
Ms Chesters will relay their message to the next Labor partyroom meeting and speak up in the House of Representatives when parliament resumes on November 26.
"When people take strike action, when they stop doing something, that's quite serious and that takes guts," she said.
Ms Chesters was struck by their focus on environmental issues while not siding with any political party and feeling disenchanted by party politics.
"They're wanting to vote, they're wanting to have a say. There was a real sense that our democracy isn't working," she said.
"Maybe if we had been bold enough to take strike action in the 90s, then maybe today we wouldn't be in the dire place that we are."
Events to organise school strikes for climate action towards the end of November are springing up on Facebook, with hundreds of students signing up.
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