
‘Mabo didn’t win the first time’: Torres Strait Islanders will continue climate fight
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Published 7/16/2025

From 7am
Published 7/16/2025
The Federal Court has dismissed a landmark class action brought by Uncles Paul Kabai and Pabai Pabai – two Torres Strait Islander men who said Canberra owed them a duty of care to safeguard their homelands from rising seas. Justice Michael Wigney accepted the islands are being “ravaged…