At the far northern tip of Australia is one of the country’s least-visited and least-understood regions. But that’s about to change, thanks to local Indigenous entrepreneurs like Fraser Nai. The ...

Two Torres Strait Islanders have sued the federal government, arguing it breached its "duty of care" to protect the islands’ residents from the impacts of climate change. The federal government denies ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian federal court officials on Monday began hearings on a lawsuit filed by a group of Torres Strait Islanders alleging the Australian government had failed to protect them ...

Message from the Queensland government / Rachel Nolan -- The Torres Strait Islands: a celebration / Tony Ellwood ... [et al.] -- Zenadh Kes: people of the land, sea and sky / Diane Moon -- The power ...

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 ...

A group of indigenous people from low-lying islands off the coast of Australia on Monday lodged an unprecedented complaint against the country’s government, accusing it of insufficient action on ...

In January 2018 floods, the sea wall that Australia built to protect the residents of Yam Island collapsed. Residents of the island — just over 1 square mile — which lies off the coast of mainland ...

Indigenous Australians from low-lying islands in the Torres Strait argue that the government, by failing to act on climate change, has violated their fundamental right to maintain their culture. By ...

July 15 (UPI) --An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental protections from the nation's government. Justice Michael ...

Harry Mosby won a silver medal for Australia at the 1976 Paralympics. It has only recently come to light how significant that achievement was. The latest IPCC Report lacked Aboriginal and Torres ...

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