Emrys Nekvapil

A judge has ordered the Victorian government to hand over legal documents it weighed before implementing its COVID-19 curfew, in a suit brought by a Liberal Party member that says the curfew was unlawful.

A decision earlier this month to extend Victoria’s controversial COVID-19 curfew was “bizarre, capricious, arbitrary” and was made under pressure from the state’s Premier, a Victoria Supreme Court judge has heard.

A group of teenagers has launched a class action against the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment in a bid to stop the proposed extension of a northern NSW coal mine.