The poster featured a note reading "Dear world leaders, don't let the coal lobby get their dirty hands on our future. Yours sincerely, young people and future generations". Next to the note is the face of a young girl looking alarmed with a man's hands, dirty with coal dust, clamped over her mouth.
The poster immediately came under fire. One twitter user commented "This is sick! comparing paedophilia with hardworking coal mining Australians," the Daily Mail has reported. Others posted negative comments on the AYCC's facebook page, and the Liberal backbencher George Christensen laid into the AYCC, branding them "environutbags".
The furore prompted the AYCC to remove the poster from the competition, writing on its Facebook page "We have removed an entry from the competition after concerns were raised about the content."
Nonetheless, the group continues to lobby Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to put climate change on the agenda at the G20 next month, when guests including Barack Obama
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