Climate Case

We have just wrapped a momentous week in Melbourne (Naarm), with Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul for their Climate Case Appeal. Over four big days, the Full Federal Court heard oral submissions from the Uncles’ exceptional legal team, Phi Finney McDonald, and counsel led by Fiona McLeod SC and Sera Mirzabegian SC, as well as the […]

The Full Federal Court has announced that on July 28-31, it will hear the appeal hearing in our landmark climate case in Naarm. We are here at this stage in our journey because we have no choice but to continue this fight for our people, our communities, our Elders and our ancestors. Our islands are

Torres Strait community leaders, Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai, will today file an appeal in the Full Federal Court for their landmark duty of care negligence case, Pabai Pabai & Anor v Commonwealth of Australia.    In his decision handed down in July, Justice Wigney found that the Torres Strait Islands, people and culture are

Impacts of human induced climate change laid bare in Federal Court judgement in Uncle Paul and Uncle Pabai landmark Australian Climate Case today. Today in Cairns, the Federal Court accepted the factual case presented in Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul’s landmark Australian Climate Case but found that “the law does not currently support” their claim

The decision on this landmark case will be handed down at the Federal Court sitting in CAIRNS, TUESDAY 15 JULY. Having filed their case against the Australian government in October 2021 in fear for their homelands, Torres Strait Traditional Owners Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai will now hear the Federal Court’s decision on

Closing arguments have been made in the Federal Court sitting in Cairns this week for the landmark Australian Climate Case. This is what happened … In this final step of the landmark Australian Climate Case, the legal team representing Torres Strait Traditional Owners Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai made their closing arguments, explaining why the Commonwealth

With the potential to improve climate outcomes for all Australians, this final step in the landmark Australian Climate Case will see closing arguments made at the Federal Court sitting in Cairns, 29 April – 3 May. Following extraordinary on-Country hearings in Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) in June 2023, and climate expert evidence given in Naarm

Following extraordinary On-Country hearings in Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) in June, further hearings for the landmark Australian Climate Case will resume at the Australian Federal Court in Naarm (Melbourne) from 8–27 November. This crucial next phase will see the Court hear from leading climate science experts on the impacts of climate change and sea level rise

Hearings for the potentially groundbreaking Australian Climate Case will take place On Country in the Torres Strait (Zenadth Kes), 5-19 June. Guda Maluyligal plaintiffs Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai from the islands of Boigu and Saibai will give evidence of the climate harms experienced by these communities on the frontline of Australia’s impending

Former President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, has been visiting communities in the Torres Strait to stand alongside Uncle Paul Kabai on Saibai island and Uncle Pabai Pabai on Boigu island as they bring the landmark Australian Climate Case against the Australian government, demanding emissions reduction in line with the science. President Tong, a well known advocate for