JENNY McCracken drove all the way up from Melbourne on Monday to her parents’ home in Sunnycliffs to stage a one-woman protest over climate change at Federal MP John Forrest’s Mildura electorate office in Madden Avenue yesterday.
The freelance artist turned environmental activist didn’t plan it that way. She issued a media release this week urging concerned citizens in Sunraysia to protest peacefully outside Mr Forrest’s office at the Rudd Government’s less than draconian plans to extinguish the global warming dragon.
Mr Forrest was not in. He had an engagement in Horsham, in the south of his huge federal electorate, which encompasses the north Victorian Mallee and part of the Wimmera.
Undeterred, Ms McCracken went ahead with her protest.
She had come equipped with a sandbag, to form part of a symbolic levee around the door to Mr Forrest’s office, to keep rising global sea levels at bay.
Over the doorway she hung three coat hangers, bearing bright orange vests of the Global Emergency Service, the coalition of non-government organisations that organised yesterday’s protest at federal electorate offices around Australia.
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