Australia has violated the human rights of a group of Torres Strait Islanders by failing to adequately protect them from the impacts of climate change, a United Nations committee has found. Key points: The groundbreaking finding by the UN Human Rights Committee was made in response to a complaint filed in 2019 by eight Torres Strait Islanders from…
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Climate change is being buried this election. We asked scientists to rate the major parties’ policies – ABC News
“Not serious and lacking detail even on their best projects being announced. Obviously, they are divided and unable to make a serious contribution.” Lesley Hughes — not an effective climate policy “The Morrison government’s climate policy can be summarised pretty quickly and simply really, in that the Morrison government has no effective federal climate policy. [They]…
Climate change has made old measures predicting weather events ‘essentially worthless’ – ABC News
When Jo Groves bought her property in Lismore, she worked hard to make it her own and thought she would grow old in it. Key points: Now, she’s unsure when she’ll be able to return and, even then, she’s apprehensive about it. “I have to come back in the short term,” she said. “But in…
