> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://nakedfella.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Cub reporter Tristian goes to the Climate Strike, then meets Fraser Anning’s fanboys - URL: https://nakedfella.com/cub-reporter-tristian-goes-to-the-climate-strike-then-meets-fraser-annings-fanboys/ - Published: 2019-03-18T19:43:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-15T23:51:26.000Z - Author: David Blumenstein - Tags: Comics, Daily Review, Nazis, Politics, School Strike, Tristian, #Migrated-1792107978996, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-16 10:46 *This was originally published at Daily Review; thanks to them for doing so.* --- Hi I’m Tristian, and this is a recap of what happened at the climate strike in Melbourne and at another thing I went to as well. It was a big weekend. Because I’m Australia’s youngest and best political journalist I thought it’s my responsibility to go along to the [School Strike 4 Climate](http://web.archive.org/web/20200402094941/https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.schoolstrike4climate.com%2F) and report on what I saw. A 15 year old in Sweden came up with the idea for schoolkids to skip school to protest climate change. It’s a good idea because adults aren’t used to kids taking direct action themselves and it f̶r̶e̶a̶k̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶^̶^̶^̶ it surprises them quite a lot. ![Drawing of Mr Banks from May Poppins saying "You children are not supposed to be out shining a light on societal collapse! I spend my life at the bank hastening it"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_01_mrbanks.jpg) The rally started at 12 so I got to the train station about 11, there were lots of kids there. ![Drawing of some teenagers: "They were mostly girls because girls care about stuff and they're less dumb"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_02_girls.jpg) As the train got closer to Parliament the carriages totally packed out with schoolkids, mostly in uniform, but some not. Also, there were some mums and dads bringing their kids, little primary schoolers and high schoolers too. ![Drawings of parents and kids attending the rally: "At each station kids look to see how many more are getting on"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_03_peoples.jpg) A lady on the train smiled and asked me if I’d like to be that young again, I said “Not really I’m Australias youngest and best political journalist now and i wouldn’t want to give up that prestige and power” and she said, ‘yeah me too, once was enough’. ![Drawing of the lady. Tristian asks her "Do you think it's good they're going to the protest?" "I think they're too late" "... for the protest?" "No to save the environment. But good on 'em"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_04_young.jpg) Walking up to the rally it looked big already, but over the next couple hours it grew massive, in the end. ![Drawing of two girls talking: "The last protest have 10,000 people, this might have more!" "Maybe they'll listen more." "I hope so!"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_05_approaching.jpg) ![Drawing of two parents protesting with their babies in the shade](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_06_shadybabies.jpg) I think kids should always lead protests, because their vitality is enriching to any social justice movement, also it’s funny when they chant and their voices break. ![Drawing of children chanting and the chant leader's voice breaking cos they're a teen going through puberty](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_07_squeaky.jpg) All in all I think the kids did an amazing job, they said stuff that was really important. The only thing I disagreed with was this sign — ![Drawing of a protest sign: "Amount of power to produce a hamburger = amount of power needed for a month of showers"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_08_burgers.jpg) It’s not very effective because when I was in high school I would definitely have skipped a month of showers if I could get an extra hamburger. After the rally I found out about the terrorist killer who murdered a lot of Muslim people in New Zealand, and then about what ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶p̶i̶e̶c̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶s̶h̶^̶^̶ an Australian senator said about it. Then I found out the Senator was having a town hall meeting, so I thought I should go along to that too. It was in a business park in Moorabbin, I went with my mate Brayden. He also hates racists, but he didn’t like pretending to be one so we could get in. ![Drawing of Tristian and Brayden going into Roberna Business Park in Moorabbin](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_09_proudboys.jpg) It feels mean to say it, but we walked in and the smell really hit you. I thought there would be more Bayside posh conservative racists but mostly it was dudes. ![Drawing of a group of angry racists: "Everyone here chose the extra hamburger"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_10_mens.jpg) Before it started some men were looking at a newspaper and discussing how the media treat the Senator badly. ![Drawing of two men looking at a newspaper report: "This is a Jewish guy wrote this" "Just because the Senator was there it's guilt by association"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_11_article.jpg) That was sort of the theme of the meeting, the Senator grinning and pretending he’s not playing to violent racists and the people in the room laughing and saying ‘oh no we are of course notviolent racists lol’. ![Drawing of Fraser Anning speaking to the group: "I've met a lot of people here and I'm yet to meet my first Nazi! Maybe he's hiding in the back somewhere". A group of Hitler fans has a laugh at this](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_12_hitlerfans.jpg) The Senator is a big tall country man so people were pretty excited to meet him. ![Drawing of Fraser Anning greeting a fan: "Hello what's your name?" "Its nice to meet you too Senator"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_13_giggle.jpg) He wheeled out a quick spiel cobbled together from US conservative talking points, country wisdom and memes he saw on his own Facebook page. ![Drawing of things Fraser said: "Whites are only 8% of the world but somehow everyone else are the minorities", "If you want to live in an Asian country, move to Peking", "Sharia law", etc](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_14_shariaetc.jpg) At Q&A time we learned a bit more about the audience, a group of ordinary, decent taxpaying Aussies. ![Drawing of questions people asked the Senator: "How do we stop the LGBTI lobby sexually indoctrinating our kids", "I'm for free speech, but what can the government do about left wing bias on social media", "Don't you think people are jumping on the New Zealand tragedy to politicise it"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_15_qanda.jpg) This was the chance for the Senator to explain how bad he feels about the families in New Zealand being murdered by a terrorist. ![Drawing of Fraser Anning saying "This guy in New Zealand's done the wrong thing... he's a bit on the crazy side obviously"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_16_nz.jpg) The Senator has an understated “Atticus Finch” kind of “aw shucks, I’m just a downhome ol’ farmboy” thing going. ![Drawing of Fraser Anning shrugging: "I'm getting a lot of criticism... I don't know why... Golly shucks Miz Dubose, ah hope ah ain't been contrary and started a gol-durned flap-doodle"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_17_flapdoodle.jpg) “You and me here are *super normal*, I am your man in Canberra, please tell me all about how the Family Court only wants to destroy the fathers”. These are the truest things the Senator said: ![Drawing of the two truest things Fraser Anning said that day: "Australia is the largest island in the world" and "95% of the people I sit in Parliament with have never had a real job"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_18_truefacts.jpg) After the Q&A finished a teenager came up to the Senator and [broke an egg on his head ](http://web.archive.org/web/20200402094941/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-16/fraser-anning-egged-in-melbourne-while-speaking-to-media/10908650)and Twitter exploded because it was super funny and great. Not everyone agreed though. ![Tweet by Annabel Crabb: "I don't think violence is okay in political debate. Does it puzzle me that this platform is hosting a pitched debate about a widely-accepted nong copping a cackleberry to the scone, 48 hours after 50 peaceful people were slaughtered while in prayerful repose? Ah, YEP."](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_19_annabel.jpg) Annabel is my respected journalistic colleague so I want to help her to not be puzzled. I think the reason we’re all excited about eggboy is because theres not many times in life you see bad deeds get punished right before your eyes. Bad people get to be celebrities on TV, bad priests get to be cardinals and bad politicians get to be on [Annabel’s cooking show](http://web.archive.org/web/20200402094941/https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Ftv%2Fprograms%2Fkitchen-cabinet%2F) and there’s nothing normal people can do about it. But this one Senator said disgusting things and then a boy popped an egg on him. Theres a joy in revenge served hot, specially when it’s *funny* and *pissweak;* this is called “Aussie humour”. ![Drawing of Mr Banks from Mary Poppins saying "OMG but it is a violence! Democracy cannot work if theres violence; I read a whitepaper about this by Judge Reg von Lincoln at my gentlemen's thinktank"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_20_violence.jpg) I say it’s not violence, using *Tristian’s rule of Violence:* ![Drawing of Tristian's Rule of Violence: "If you would film your mum doing it to herself to raise money for charity, it's not violence"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_21_notviolence-2.jpg) I just wish I got to see it happen myself! But Brayden was sick of it and I kinda wanted to go as well. ![](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/tristian_rallies_22_cop.jpg) Anyway, the point is that kids aren’t just the future, they’re the right now! And judging by this weekend they’re about a hundred times more effective making social change than the media is. \*\*Except for investigative journos and four corners and daily review because they are legit champs. ### **Update!** ***Tristian wants to apologise to Annabel Crabb, her tweet made it look like she didn’t like eggs. She meant she didn’t like real actual violence. Popping an egg is still funny. Tristian didn’t go looking for context to what Annabel said and for that he can go in the bin.*** \*\*\* About the Author: [**Tristian Blumenstein**](http://web.archive.org/web/20200402094941/https://dailyreview.com.au/author/tristianblumenstein/) ***Tristian is studying Media Entrepreneurship at Latham University and tweets from @trisjunb. He reports for Daily Review on world news, politics and eggs. Read more by him*** [***here***](http://web.archive.org/web/20200402094941/https://dailyreview.com.au/?s=tristian) Tristian is a student at Strathfield Secondary College and the younger brother of cartoonist David Blumenstein who can be contacted at nakedfella.com !["Questions & Tristian: Thoughtful commentary written by a leading voice on politics in strong fonts"](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/trisbio-1.jpg)