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The Kirwan Bears will draw on the school’s proud indigenous culture as they pull on specially designed NAIDOC-inspired ...
Torres Strait Island elders Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai at court, with their legal advisers, to hear the Federal Court’s final judgement on 15 July. Image credit: The Australian Climate ...
Crisafulli Government committed $6.8 million to continue recognition of Torres Strait Islander child-rearing practices for three more years. Under the former Labor Government, funding for the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The legal claim against the Commonwealth Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul argued the Commonwealth government has a duty to protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change when setting national emissions ...
Traditional landowners in the Torres Strait have failed in an attempt to launch a class action lawsuit against the Commonwealth over climate change. Paul Pabai and Pabai Pabai on a boardwalk on Boigu ...