Jane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

I am assuming, Senator McKim, that what it is that you are trying to refer to is the case that is currently before the courts, the Sharma and Ors versus the Minister for the Environment case. Is that correct, Senator McKim?

Opposition senators interjecting—

Thank you very much—that the minister has a duty of care to young people regarding climate change. On 27 May 2021 the Federal Court delivered a document declining to grant an injunction preventing the Minister for the Environment from approving the Vickery extension project. On 8 July 2021 the Federal Court made final orders and provided further reasons in the matter. The court declared that the Minister for the Environment owed a duty of care—