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Australian builders are on the brink of going bust due to soaring raw material costs for fixed price contracts and half are struggling to make a profit. 

The corporate regulator has secured freezing orders for the assets of A Team Property Group and its founder Sasha Hopkins, who is prevented from leaving Australia until at least Monday.

The children have been busy. On matters of environmental justice, Australia has witnessed much legal activity from youthful citizens who, despite in some cases not being old enough to vote, have stirred politics. In 2021, five lodged complaints with the United Nations over the failure of the Australian government to cut, in a meaningful way, greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. By Binoy Kampmark

Whether in this or another case, Australia’s climate inaction could reach the high court – which can, and does, rewrite the law. It should do so

A previous decision - hailed as a world first - found the government had a duty of care to children.

The Australian government does not owe the country's children protection from harm caused by climate change, a court has ruled.

The environment minister has appealed the decision that she owed a duty of care to Australian children to protect them from the worsening climate crisis.

By Tiffanie Turnbull for Australian Associated Press

Eight teenagers and a nun had previously won their case against the federal environment minister related to the expansion of a NSW coalmine

A previous decision - hailed as a world first - found the government had a duty of care to children.