Dr Elu said at the heart of the fight was the continued existence of Torres Strait Islander people and their homelands.
Over a few decades, Aunty McRose Elu has seen her ancestral lands inundated with water. Dr Elu was born on one of the outer islands of the Torres Strait – the low-lying Saibai Island, 4km south of Papua New Guinea. "As you go through the area when you fly over it's very frightening," Dr Elu told AAP. "Now you can see more water than land but people live there.
The final hearings in the landmark case will begin in Cairns on Monday, with legal teams to make their closing arguments throughout the week. "What we're fighting for is survival," she said. "That's why it's important to me, we think about the young people who are yet to come ... I don't want them to see that they have no land and no island.
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