First published on Wed 26 May 2021 21.50 EDT
The federal court of Australia has found the environment minister, Sussan Ley, has a duty of care to protect young people from the climate crisis in a judgment hailed by lawyers and teenagers who brought the case as a world first.
Eight teenagers and an octogenarian nun had sought an injunction to prevent Ley approving a proposal by Whitehaven Coal to expand the Vickery coalmine in northern New South Wales, arguing the minister had a common law duty of care to protect younger people against future harm from climate change.
Justice Mordecai Bromberg found the minister had a duty of care to not act in a way that would cause future harm to younger people. But he did not grant the injunction as he was not satisfied the minister would breach her duty of care.
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Good morning, it’s Tamara Howie here on Tuesday 2 March with the recommendations from the
aged care royal commission, the latest on
historic rape allegations confronting Canberra, and the teens taking the government to task over the
climate crisis.
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The woman who has alleged she was raped by a cabinet minister in January 1988 has been described as
“an incredibly smart, witty, talented and capable person” by her friend Jeremy Samuel. Samuel said the incident “was a very, very heavy weight on her” after she revealed the historical rape allegation to him in June 2019, a year before her death. The prime minister