Judge Michael Wigney rules the federal government owes no duty of care to Torres Strait Islanders over climate change, but also finds Australia's emissions reductions targets up to 2021 are not ...

Disturbing bombing threat is issued on video by masked man standing with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags: 'Every colony will burn' ...

Delegates at the WA Liberal State Council also approved a motion to get rid of the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islands flags behind the prime minister at press conferences and cut back on Welcome ...

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 ...

Indigenous Australians living on a string of climate-threatened islands today lost a landmark court bid to hold the Government responsible for lacklustre emissions targets.

A motion to reduce Welcome to Country ceremonies and exclude Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags from press conferences has been passed by the Western Australian Liberal Party.

Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai, two brothers-in-law, are exemplars of the extraordinary commitment of ordinary people pursuing climate justice.

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 ...

Federal Court judge Michael Wigney has found that while Torres Strait Islanders are at the forefront of climate change, the plaintiffs did not prove their case of Commonwealth negligence.

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 ...

Two Traditional Owners from the Torres Strait Islands who took the Australian government to court over climate-related harms have lost their case.