The Federal Court has essentially said it can’t act. But the decision certainly doesn’t mean the government can’t act. In fact, that’s exactly who the judges indicated must.
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Environment minister Sussan Ley successfully argued that she doesn’t have a duty of care to protect young people from climate change. Here’s why the judges unanimously ruled in her favour.
The court described climate change as ‘the greatest inter-generational injustice ever inflicted by one generation of humans upon the next’.
Australia lacks standalone hazing legislation that clearly makes it the responsibility of universities, but courts here and overseas are increasingly likely to find them liable for the harm done.
It is no accident that those leaders who have responded worst to this crisis have also been the main sources of countless conspiracy theories and misinformation.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has demonstrated how catastrophically some teachers have failed their duties - a pledge is one way to turn that around.
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Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney
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SARChI/Newton Research Professor in Political Theory, Wits and Cambridge, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Fellow, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate and Teaching Associate, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, and Research fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University
