Victorian parliament's decision to refuse right-wing activist Avi Yemini a media pass has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
Yemini, the Australian bureau chief for Canadian far-right website Rebel News, took parliamentary officers to the court to challenge their rejection of his media accreditation.
He claimed he was denied procedural fairness when his accreditation application, seeking access to both houses of state parliament, the building and its surrounds, was rejected last year.
However, Justice Tim Ginnane dismissed Yemini's case on Friday.
"I have concluded that Mr Yemini has not established that the decision not to approve his media accreditation application was made by a person unknown who acted beyond power and made jurisdictional errors," he wrote, in a written decision.
"On the evidence, I find that the Speaker or his authorised officer made the decision.
"That decision was an exercise of parliament's privilege to control access to the parliamentary precincts and the decision was within the exclusive cognisance or jurisdiction of parliament."
