Morning everyone. After years of campaigning by Pacific activists and the Vanuatu government, the world’s top court has ruled that countries could be made to pay reparations if they fail to take action on the climate crisis. We have a full report, plus scientists warn that the ongoing marine heatwave will hit wildlife as badly as the black summer fires.
In other news, house prices are up in all eight capital cities. We have a heartbreaking dispatch from the frontline of Gaza’s starvation crisis, and the latest on the Epstein files furore in the US.