Two Torres Strait community leaders are shocked and devastated after the federal court dismissed a landmark case that argued the Australian government breached its duty of care to protect the Torres Strait Islands from climate change. This pain isn’t just for me, it’s for all people Indigenous and non-Indigenous who have been affected by climate change. It was modelled on the Urgenda climate case against the Dutch government – the first case in the world in which citizens established their government had a legal duty to prevent dangerous climate change. Wigney found that the Torres Strait Islands “have been, and continue to be, ravaged by climate change and its impacts”. But she said it had made strong findings that the “Australian government knows that Torres Strait communities are being ravaged by climate change”.