Cocos (Keeling) islanders blast plan for long-term retreat from rising seas
Hundreds of Australians could be forced to leave their island homes under government plans to safeguard residents against ...
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Home to Malay descendants, Australia’s Cocos Islands face evacuation as seas rise
The Australian government has proposed moving hundreds of residents from their island home within decades as sea levels rise, ...
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Australia mulls ‘managed retreat’ from rising sea in Cocos Islands
Many of the 600 residents there are descendants of Malay workers brought to the ... That could include legal action, he added. Many people have been on Cocos Island for three to five generations ...
Australia plans ‘long-term managed retreat’ from Cocos Islands amid rising seas
Many of the islands’ residents are descendants of Malay workers brought there to work in coconut plantations in the 1830s.