July 15 (UPI) --An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental protections from the nation's government. Justice Michael ...
Indigenous Australians living on a string of climate-threatened islands have lost a landmark court case to hold the government responsible for lacklustre emissions targets, dealing a blow to ...
Justice Michael Wigney acknowledged in his ruling that the Torres Strait Islands and their people are being “ravaged by human induced climate change.” Indigenous people threatened by rising seas face ...
Thursday Island and other islands in the Torres Strait, looking west from above Horn Island, between Australia and New Guinea, March 15, 1991. (PeterTHarris / Wikipedia via Courthouse News) SYDNEY, ...
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