Eight teenagers won a milestone environmental court case in Australia, but the result was appealed.
Sister Brigid Arthur and Anjali Sharma outside the federal court in Melbourne with their lawyer David Barnden
"To me it all just sounded like jargon. It took a briefing from my legal team to understand the magnitude of what had happened," she says. Their case attempted to stop the expansion of the Vickery coal mine in New South Wales, which is estimated to add an extra 170 million tonnes of fossil fuel emissions to the atmosphere.
Yet in September Ms Ley approved the extension of the Vickery coal mine, as well as three others since then. The government is also appealing the decision in the Sharma case - the outcome of which is due soon.The government used a "substitution argument" as one reason to approve Vickery, says the lawyer representing the Sharma case, David Barnden.
Sister Arthur has spent a lifetime working with young people. For over two decades she has been acting as a litigation guardian - instructing lawyers on behalf of those who can't represent themselves - in cases mostly involving refugees. Before that she was a secondary school teacher. This is her first environmental case.
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