1. A 'tombstone opening' and the problem of island custom -- 2. Pearlers, pastors and protectors -- 3. Disastrous contact: 'army time' and after -- 4. Reflections in a colonial mirror -- 5. The Murray ...

In the 1930s, pearlers were subjected to racist and controlling measures by government officials until their collective ...

Nina Lansbury is a Friend of The Conversation. Nina Lansbury Hall is a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Assessment Report 6 and receives travel funding to attend from the ...

Residents from Australia’s Torres Strait Islands plan to file a human rights complaint against the Australia government for failing to address the impacts of climate change. The residents will be ...

The Cairns & Great Barrier Reef region’s World Heritage areas are home to Australia’s two Indigenous cultures, which can be experienced on more than 80 tours during Queensland’s Year of Indigenous ...

Kristen Lyons has received funding from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) to conduct research on agro forestry in Solomon Islands (including forests and carbon ...

The U.N. Human Rights Committee ruled in a watershed case that Australia has failed adequately to protect indigenous Torres Strait Islanders from the adverse effects of climate change. This is the ...

Indigenous Australians from low-lying islands in the Torres Strait argue that the government, by failing to act on climate change, has violated their fundamental right to maintain their culture. By ...

Entitled "Evolution: Torres Strait Masks," the event was inaugurated by the Australian Ambassador to Tehran Ian McConville, who emphasized that this exhibition is the first of its kind to be held in ...

Fed up with restrictions over what they earned and where they could go, pearl boat workers embarked on nine months of ...