Press releases

• 7 November, 2022: Torres Strait Islanders build a seawall outside Parliament House, calling for stronger action on climate change
• 23 September, 2022: Torres Strait Islanders win historic human rights legal fight against Australia
• 19 April, 2022: Torres Strait Islanders to deliver thousands of messages calling for climate action to Warren Entsch
• March 2, 2022: Joint statement on climate change and the Torres Strait in response to IPCC report
• 2 November, 2021: Torres Strait Islanders deliver Warren Entsch a sweet invitation on climate
• 29 September, 2021: Australia doubles down on climate inaction in Torres Strait complaint
• April 21, 2022: Torres Strait Islanders and Clothing The Gaps team up to call for climate action for the Torres Strait
• 30 September, 2020: Torres Strait Islander claimants in historic climate case ramp up their campaign
• February 19 2020: Torres Strait Islanders win key ask after climate complaint
• 1 September 2019: Torres Strait representatives invite Australian PM to visit their islands and see impact of climate change for himself

Media coverage

• 23 September, 2022: UN says Australia’s climate inaction violated Torres Strait Islanders’ rights, Sydney Morning Herald
• 23 September, 2022: Australia violated islander rights: UN, The West Australian

• 23 September, 2022: UN Human Rights Committee finds Australia violated Torres Strait Islanders’ rights by failing to protect them from climate change, ABC

• 23 September, 2022: Australia should compensate Torres Strait Islanders for climate crisis failure, UN says, The Guardian

• 23 September, 2022: Australia violated Torres Strait Islanders’ rights by failing to protect them from climate change, UN says, SBS News
• 23 September, 2022: Australia climate change inaction violated islanders’ rights, UN finds, Reuters
• 23 September, 2022: UN says Australia’s climate inaction violated Torres Strait Islanders’ rights, WA Today
• 23 September, 2022: Australia violated islander rights: UN, The Recorder
• 23 September, 2022: Australia violated islander rights: UN, Goondiwindi Argus
• August 5, 2022: How faith can help fight climate change, ABC RN
• July 30, 2022: The Torres Strait Islander elders lawyering up to stop their homes from sinking, Sydney Morning Herald
• May 19, 2022: Support This Torres Strait Islander Campaign By Demanding More Climate Action, Urban List
• May 19, 2022: A forgotten story of the election is First Nations voices are often excluded from the conversation, The Guardian
• May 13, 2022: First Nations Fashion returns for triumphant second year, NITV, SBS
• May 13, 2022: Closing AAFW, First Nations Fashion + Design shines a spotlight on the climate emergency, Harpers Bazaar
• April 23, 2022: First Person: Torres Strait Islanders fight the loss of their ancestral home, UN News
• April 22, 2022: Coverage of the climate crisis is overlooking First Nations’ stories, but this initiative is seeking to change that, Fashion Journal
• April 20, 2022: ‘Climate refugee’ risk as Torres Strait Islanders take sea level concerns to candidates, National Indigenous Times
• April 5, 2022: ‘A file of shame’: UN chief takes aim as damning new climate report urges phase-out of coal and oil, SBS
• March 2, 2022: International scientists back climate fight of Torres Strait 8, SBS
• November 5, 2021: Queensland MP gets delivered a sweet invitation on climate change, NIT
• November 17, 2021: Torres Strait Islanders call for action on climate change, The Wire
• November 11, 2021: Fighting to be heard at COP26, Torres News
• November 17, 2021: Anger levels rise, Koori Mail
• November 10, 2021: Come see our plight: Torres Strait Islander leader to Morrison over climate, ABC
• November 4, 2021: “Our island is being washed away”: Torres Strait at the forefront of climate change, ABC
• November 3, 2021: Costing the earth, BBC
• November 3, 2021: MPs to get the scoop on climate change, Cairns Post
• November 3, 2021: The Torres Strait 8 continue to wait, Koori Mail
• November 2, 2021: The Mission, RRR
• October 30, 2021: Australia’s climate policy is all talk and no trousers, The Economist
• October 7, 2021: United Nations: Torres Strait climate crisis, NITV
• October 7, 2021: The Point, SBS
• September 29, 2021: Interview, Drive ABC
• August 9, 2021: Global warming of 1.5 degrees could be reached a decade earlier around 2030, major climate report finds, SBS News
• August 9, 2021: IPCC Report – the window is closing for action on climate change, 7:30 Report ABC
• July 4, 2021: In a critical year for climate justice, these Torres Strait Islanders are leading the fight, SBS News
• June 15, 2021: United Nations set to decide climate claims by Torres Strait Islanders against Australia, Sydney Morning Herald
  
• April 19, 2021: For these Torres Strait Islanders, climate change is already here — and they’re urging the government to do more, ABC
• April 19, 2021: Climate Change Part 1: How climate change is affecting the Torres Strait, ABC
• April 15, 2021: Climate crisis: Australian islanders say homes being ‘eaten away’ by rising sea levels, The Independent
• April 15, 2021: Climate crisis: Australian islanders say homes being ‘eaten away’ by rising sea levels
• April 15, 2021: Torres Strait 8: Australian Islanders in landmark climate fight, BBC
• January 27, 2021: January 26 program brings Indigenous perspectives of Australia Day, ABC
• December 11, 2020: Torres Strait Islander complaint against climate change inaction wins backing of UN legal experts, ABC Pacific Beat
• November 12, 2020: The people taking the Australian Government to the UN over the lack of climate action, A Rational Fear podcast
• October 11, 2020: Ratio National Programs Lost and Found, Torres Strait Islands, Radio National ABC
• October 7, 2020: Climate action heats up, Koori Mail
• September 30, 2020: #TorresStrait8 TV News story, ABC
• September 30, 2020:Torres Strait 8 could set ‘global precedent’ with United Nations human rights fight linked to climate change, ABC
• September 3, 2020: The Point Ep24, Climate Justice, NITV
• August 21, 2020: Commonwealth rejects Torres Strait Islander human rights complaint, National Indigenous Times
• August 14, 2020: Australia asks UN to dismiss Torres Strait Islanders claim climate change affects their human rights, The Guardian
• August 14, 2020: Torres Strait doctors issue call to arms over climate change impact on indigenous health, The Guardian

• Nov 22, 2019: Scott Morrison rejects Torres Strait Islanders’ invitation to see disastrous effects of climate change, National Indigenous Times