Anjali Sharma, one of eight who fought for government’s duty of care to young people, says she will not be silenced by online abuse
She posted screenshots of the “absolutely vile racism” on social media, and added that nobody should expect her to be silenced.“Don’t let them laugh at your food, your culture, your traditional dress or your beautiful language.
“I have found myself wondering: if I was not a person of colour, would the case have got more media?”Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning In the federal court in July last year, Justice Mordecai Bromberg ruled that the environment minister had a duty “to take reasonable care” to “avoid causing personal injury or death” to Australians under 18 “arising from emissions of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere” from the approval of Whitehaven Coal’s project near Boggabri in northern NSW.But the government successfully appealed that ruling.
“They will take eight children to court on taxpayer money to allow them to keep [the status quo] . We forced them to say the quiet part out loud.” In a joint statement released Tuesday, they said: “We should never have needed to file this case in the first place. No new coal mines should be approved.
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