The UNHCR said Australia has violated TorresΒ Strait islanders' rights by ignoring their concerns about rising seas caused by climate change. Binoy Kampmark °ω±π±θ΄Η°ω³Ω²υ.Μύ
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Eight Torres Strait Islander elders are taking the federal government to the United NationsΒ Human Rights Committee over its inaction on climate change. Coral Wynter °ω±π±θ΄Η°ω³Ω²υ.Μύ
Eddie Mabo did not fight for ngau lag (my land) only to lose it to climate change, argues Makiba.
Mark Kabay-Saleh,Β from the islands of Masig and Poruma in the centre of the Torres Strait, spoke powerfully about saving his islands at the Brisbane School Strike 4 Climate.
Joseph Elu, chair of the Torres Strait Regional Authority, told Radio Nationalβs PM on January 5 that .
βA couple of our islands, the tide rises over the sea walls of the beachfront and it flows under the houses and out the other end ... Theyβre predicting that in 100 years, then theyβll go under.β
Mau Power's new album takes listeners through the big changes in his life - and the first of those came when he was jailed. "In 2001, I got incarcerated," the Torres Strait Islands rapper tells ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly.