Runner - why are you so negative! This sounds like a wonderful idea! Kids teaching other kids about important matters. These kids aren't giving parents disrespect - they are responsible citizens trying to make a difference. More than I can say for most adults! Well done Arron! Well done kids! Get there Kevin - kids are our future! Make a difference in their lives - one they'll always remember. This is Australia's future! Support them!

If you scare them silly, at a young enough age, kids are bound to believe the government climate change spin. It's like religion, scare the kids into believing something unbelievable. My advice, do your own investigation into this seemingly "new religion".

I agree with Raebee. Kids - or anyone, for that matter - should look at the science and decide for themselves. Otherwise it's easy to get sucked in by the corporate misinformation campaigns which are uncritically repeated ad nauseum by pro-business conservatives.

And you're far too cynical, KAEP. Without flower power and the love revolution of the Baby Boomers, gays and women would still be second-class citizens, we'd be mired in a Tory class system, and we wouldn't live in the most peaceful, conflict-free era of human history.

An educated generation of children is a great thing.

Oh dear Sancho,

Are you a hippy from way back, harking for the start of the Age of Aquarius?

Don't you know the 'flower power'and 'free love' movemments effectively ended with the brutality of one Charles Manson.

The womans movement was around long before the 60's and was championed by liberal minded women and men, just as was tolerance of homosexuality among the more progressive liberal thinks of the past.

The brainwashing of some kids by the green lunatics will end in tears and the great sadness of disillusion. A general rejection will follow just as occurred with the 'flower power' and 'free love' movements when they ended. The 'green idiocy' will eventually be replaced by more sensible attittudes as has been the case with most rabid belief systems and fad addictions.

Kevvy's failing on climate change in the Labor Party there are great divisions in the labor movement on the issue. Wait till the Unions affected by proposed legislation realise it will cost their members jobs ... Kevvy will suddenly go to water on this issue. Perhaps the efforts brainwashing the kids would have been better spent re-educationing miners, electrical workers, forestry workers and 'the list goes on'.

I quote from an opinion in the Telegraph today; "trying to change the climate is like an ant biting an elephant on the foot"... How apt.

I despise the idea of children being "brainwashed" into believing anything, let alone that we can change climate.

Knowledge used to be provided impartially, with both sides of important issues presented fairly. This is not happening in our schools on this subject, nor with many others any longer.

It is not right, it is definitely unfair to our children and I don't give a toss what the mad greenie ilk think or believe, it's wrong.

The climate change deluge of spin is not winning this government any support by the way. Penny Wong certainly will have provided a very expensive "risk management" (her words) programme if the ETS proves to be unwarranted and wrong.

Charles Manson? Your argument against the cultural renaissance of the 60s is "Charles Manson"?

Please fill in the leaps of logic you made to arrive at that conclusion, then explain how Manson's crimes invalidate or outweigh the unprecedented personal freedom we now enjoy in the first world.

When that's done, tell us how tolerance of homosexuality among a few "progressive liberal thinks", and the existence of a tiny, much-maligned women's lib movement, in any way compares to the mainstream acceptance of both groups in 2009.