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Images: Oz Parliament Climate Change Protest

By: Greenpeace
Published: Tue 20 Aug 2002 10:30 PM
Canberra/Auckland, Tuesday August 21, 2002: In a peaceful protest today, three Greenpeace climbers, including New Zealander Michael Simpson, scaled the flagpole at Parliament House in Canberra, urging the Australian Government to ratify Kyoto now.
For more background see... Greenpeace climbers scale Australian Parliament House flagpole in climate change protest
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