ACTION HERO

Last September, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey found her face beamed across the country. As part of the group of students who organised the Australian school climate strikes, she galvanised more than 300,000 people to demand climate action and became the local face of the movement in the process. In her new book On Hope, the year 12 student writes about juggling her activism with assignments, being invited to attend the UN Climate Conference last December and why it’s important to raise your voice, especially on the topic of climate change.

It’s 8.30am in August 2019 and I’m struggling to process the maths being written out on the smartboard. Just four and a half hours earlier I was discussing strategy on a call with strikers from around the globe. The reality of having been