The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has added Australia to its advisory after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast ...

The ruling said the government did not owe a duty of care to protect the Torres Strait islands from climate change.

Both Torres Strait Islander peoples and Pacific Islanders have taken their climate battles to the courtroom in recent weeks.

A geopolitical tug-of-war between China and the United States is “fundamental” to the development of northern Australia, an ...

Indigenous elders lose climate case as judge says protecting islands is a political, not legal, responsibility ...

CAIRNS: The Australian government has won a landmark climate case against residents of islands under siege from the impacts ...

In a landmark case, a judge will today decide whether Australia needs to make deeper emissions cuts to protect its low-lying islands. Two Torres Strait Islanders have sued the federal government for ...

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 ...

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 ...