Overseas, Albanese sees ‘the very definition of climate injustice’ – but at home, he still wants coal

Anthony Albanese visits the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP) during the pre-Cop31 meeting in Funafuti, Tuvalu. Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images

There are unlikely to be many bigger moments in Australian action on the climate crisis this year than a judgment by the high court on Wednesday.

In what is likely to prove a historic victory, the court sided with community members in the Hunter Valley to strike down a state regulator’s approval of a massive coalmine expansion that could have kept it operating until 2048.