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Torres Strait communities outline fears for their future in lay evidence submissions to landmark climate case

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The ‘Australian Climate Case’ progresses to the next step today with community members revealing how climate change has impacted lives in the Torres Strait. Today, 17 February, the legal team representing Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai, from Boigu and Saibai islands in the Torres Strait, will submit lay evidence collected from community members to the Federal Court as […]

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Landmark class action lawsuit sees frontline communities sue Australian Government for climate crisis

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First Nations leaders from the remote islands of Boigu and Saibai in Guda Maluyligal in the Torres Strait (Zenadth Kes) are taking the Australian Federal Government to court in a bid to prevent the destruction of their communities by climate change. In a landmark class action case Wadhuam (Maternal Uncle) Paul Kabai and Wadhuam Pabai Pabai are arguing that

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We acknowledge the Guda Maluyligal people and pay our respect to the tens of thousands of years of stories and community life and to Elders past and present. We acknowledge that the legal system has been and continues to be used to oppress First Nations communities, and we will continue to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and movements to challenge injustice. Blak lives matter.