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

Around the Torres Strait Islands in Australia, sea levels are rising higher each year. Mayor Vonda Malone wants to change that. Around the Torres Strait Islands in Australia, sea levels are rising ...

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 ...

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

SYDNEY, June 5 (Reuters) - Australian federal court officials on Monday began hearings on a lawsuit filed by a group of Torres Strait Islanders alleging the Australian government had failed to protect ...

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 ...

Australia has a mixed relationship with the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Irritation, dismissal and even the occasional openly hostile comment, have registered. But in 1994, the Toonen ...

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 ...

UK airframer Britten-Norman (B-N) has secured the latest commitment for its revitalised Islander utility aircraft, with Australian charter operator Torres Strait Air signing a letter of intent to take ...

Message from the Queensland government / Rachel Nolan -- The Torres Strait Islands: a celebration / Tony Ellwood ... [et al.] -- Zenadh Kes: people of the land, sea and sky / Diane Moon -- The power ...

The mural, a collaboration between two artists, is part of a $2 million upgrade to Niue’s national broadcaster studios. Artists Jica Vakaafi and Tori-Jay Mordey have collaborated for a new mural as ...