"“These are real experiences and this is a very real issue that affects people on a very personal level. Not being afraid to show that vulnerability has been really, really instrumental in getting the coverage that we did.”"
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Meet International award-winning Teen Climate Activist, Anjali Sharma. By Erika Menezes, July 21, 2022. Australian South Asian Centre. Retrieved: November 23 2023.
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Anjali Sharma
Anjali Sharma (born 2004) is an Australian climate activist, who at the age of 16, was the lead litigant in a class action in the Australian Federal Court, against the Federal government, and in particular, the then Minister for the Environment, Sussan Ley, for failing to consider the impacts of climate change. Sharma was also a finalist in the 2021 Children's Climate Prize, an International prize for climate activism, based in Sweden.
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