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Forgotten plight Australia Torres Strait islanders: land is being swallowed by rising sea
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The islands which dot the sparkling waters of the Torres Strait, off the far north-east of Australia, were the birthplace of indigenous land rights. In 1992, five islanders led by Eddie Mabo won a landmark High Court case which erased the notion that Australia was unoccupied when the British arrived. But more than two decades on, the land for which they fought is being swallowed by the sea. The low-lying islands some of them closer to Papua New Guinea than the Australian mainland are at risk...
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