Legal ruling can’t obscure the brutal reality of climate change for Torres Strait Islanders | Adam Morton

Technicalities of case mustn't stop Albanese government from bold action on emissions before problems of climate change are visited upon communities closer to home

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As parliament returns for the first time since the May election, talk is focused on productivity, disastrous childcare failures and how Australia should position and prepare itself amid rising global turmoil.

If our leaders are serious, they should also make time to look back on the events of a week ago, when federal court justice Michael Wigney handed down a judgment in Cairns that is likely to echo for years to come - and says just as much about what lies ahead as the latest rhetoric from Washington and Beijing.

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