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As climate change threatened her home, Alolita was offered a chance at a new life in Australia

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Alolita Tekapu and her family among the first arrivals under a world-first agreement that allows people from Tuvalu to move to Australia

On a suburban street in eastern Melbourne on a cool summer’s day, Alolita Tekapu sits on the couch feeding her one-month-old son, Philip, while her three older boys play outside. Her husband folds laundry nearby, pausing occasionally to check on the children.

It’s an ordinary domestic scene. But the reason this family are in Australia is far from ordinary.

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