The Kirwan Bears will draw on the school’s proud indigenous culture as they pull on specially designed NAIDOC-inspired ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are stepping up a campaign for the Queensland government to offer compensation to help heal the horrors of the Stolen Generation.

Australia’s Indigenous elders lose landmark environment case of Torres Strait Islands Indigenous elders lose climate case as judge says protecting islands is a political, not legal, responsibility ...

Australia’s Federal Court has ruled that the national government owes no legal duty to protect the Torres Strait Islands or their Indigenous inhabitants from the effects of climate change, in a ...

· The judge maintained Torres Strait Islanders’ only recourse was via ‘the ballot box’.” · An appeal court could further explore comparative international developments in climate litigation. In the ...

After a federal court judge found Torres Strait Islanders will likely become "climate refugees" without urgent action, the two traditional owners at the heart of the case invite the prime minister ...

A federal court justice has found the government did not have a duty of care to protect the Torres Strait Islander people from climate change as he dismissed a landmark case.

An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental protections from the nation's government.