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 ...

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 ...

Message from the Queensland government / Rachel Nolan -- The Torres Strait Islands: a celebration / Tony Ellwood ... [et al.] -- Zenadh Kes: people of the land, sea and sky / Diane Moon -- The power ...

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 ...

Blak women make up a growing part of the Australian workforce, with 57% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women aged 15 to 64 employed in 2022-23 (the latest figures we have). That’s a ...

Wesley Morgan is a fellow with the Climate Council. Riona Moodley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations in Australia are leading initiatives to build new AI tools to improve indigenous health outcomes. This comes following findings from a two-year ...

Urgent effective action to improve culturally safe access to screening and follow-up could markedly accelerate cervical cancer elimination among Indigenous women in Australia.

Growing concern among First Nations leaders in the Torres Strait and Bamaga that more of their youth are consuming illicit commodities because of the increase of trafficking through the region has ...

Background -- Introduction -- Policy: previous possessions new obligations -- Training -- Ethics & documentation -- The keeping place -- Checklist -- The environment ...

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, ...