Ms TEMPLEMAN (Macquarie) (13:45): Next week, students from across the Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains are set to call out to all of us here from the hub in Springwood. It will be the third time that the Macquarie electorate students for climate action have organised a strike. They are desperately urging this parliament to take the actions needed to effectively tackle climate change. It's about time we listened. We should be listening to the issues that have made them feel they have no choice but to miss school. We should be listening to the evidence, like other governments around the world have. We should be listening to what these students expect of us, their leaders, in the face of this climate emergency, an emergency that is playing out around us every single day in our own backyards. This is about the planet they will inherit, and our failure to act now means disaster for them later. These same Macquarie students are doing their bit to educate their parents' and grandparents' generations. They recently organised an evening forum, jointly with Hawkesbury City Council. There was the deputy mayor, there was a former deputy commissioner of Fire and Rescue NSW, there were experts in environmental education and there was a Western Sydney University economist. Despite all their different backgrounds, every single speaker said we are running out of time. For goodness sake, Bob Hawke was trying to raise awareness about this 30 years ago! It's about time this parliament took serious action. We have a role to play.