‘One more mine does make a difference’: Australian children argue for the climate – and the law agrees

The world was watching as a judge formalised into law a government's duty of care to protect under-18s from the climate crisis

At about 9.30am on Thursday morning, 17-year-old Melbourne school student Anjali Sharma was walking her two-year-old kelpie-cross dog Maya down to the creek when the notifications started buzzing on her phone.

I was getting updates from the lawyers in the court," says Sharma, who as we speak is about to take another call from a journalist at the Times of India.