We’re Wadhuam Pabai and Wadhuam Paul, Guda Maluyligal men from the Torres Strait. We’re taking the Australian government to court to save our island homes.
Climate change isn’t just a problem for people in the Torres Strait – it affects all of us. If our case is successful, everyone in Australia will reap the benefits.
We’re sharing our climate story in court. Will you share your story and help us demand real climate action from the government?
Hundreds of people from across the country are sharing their stories to send a clear message to the Australian government - it's time for real action on climate change.
Every story appears as a point on this map. Click around to read how climate change is affecting our communities, and add your own story to the map.
I have two teenage children who are scared about their future and I am scared for them as well. The issue of climate change is on my mind always, yet I don’t feel I can discuss it as it makes everyone around me so uncomfortable so we bury or heads in the sand. The collective fear and grief is affecting many people I know. We know we will have to move away from Brisbane as climate change increases the temperature to an unbearable level with summers too hot to go outside. I spend a lot of time in natural outdoor environments for work and leisure and I see the effects of long dry periods, storms, raging bushfires and floods are having on the already fragmented, weed and pest infested landscapes that we have left. My heart breaks for what we are doing to this country.
Read my storyPeople all across Australia are being harmed by climate change. These are some of their stories.
We acknowledge the Guda Maluyligal people and pay our respect to the tens of thousands of years of stories and community life and to Elders past and present.
We acknowledge that the legal system has been and continues to be used to oppress First Nations communities, and we will continue to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and movements to challenge injustice. Blak lives matter.