Australian students are walking out of schools this week to take a stand against political inaction on climate change.

Organised by the national student-led collective School Strike 4 Climate Action, a series of strikes will take place across the country, with some students dedicating up to a week to the protests.

There will be strikes in all capital cities, including the Whitsundays, Albury, Wodonga, the Gold Coast, and Lismore, over three days, starting on Nov. 28.

The children and teenagers, aged from 5 to 18, say they are inspired by the protest of 15-year-old Greta Thunberg in Sweden, who drew attention to climate change earlier this year by sitting outside of Swedish parliament ahead of the general election.



The movement's first protests took place over two days in Bendigo at the beginning of the month, when 30 students went on strike from school and marched outside the office of local Labor MP Lisa Chesters to protest the Adani coal mine and the lack of action taken by the Australian government on climate change.

The strikes continued on the third day, with a group of 50 students, which was then granted a meeting with the MP.



In the days following the Victorian students gathered on the steps of Victorian parliament.