A rugby team of zombie Wallabies has descended on Parliament House.
The Dead Wallabies are protesting Rugby Australia’s sponsorship by oil and gas company Santos which extended its deal with the sporting code back in 2021.
Santos sponsors the Wallabies who are currently playing in the Rugby World Cup in France.
Through the use of a translator, the zombies called on the government to regulate fossil fuel advertisements and sponsorships, in the same way as alcohol and tobacco.
“The Federal government needs to ban fossil fuel sponsorships so our sporting heroes are not made billboards for climate destruction,” said translator and Dead Wallabies Captain Belinda Noble.
“Unfortunately, the Dead Wallabies could not find any brains in Canberra this morning because the government is still beholden to fossil fuel companies destroying our climate.”
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