Indigenous Australians living on a string of climate-threatened islands have lost a landmark court case to hold the government responsible for lacklustre emissions targets, dealing a blow to ...

July 15 (UPI) --An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental protections from the nation's government. Justice Michael ...

Torres Strait Islanders are pleading with authorities to involve them in managing unprecedented incursions into northern ...

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 ...

Blak women make up a growing part of the Australian workforce, with 57% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women aged 15 to 64 employed in 2022-23 (the latest figures we have). That’s a ...

Justice Michael Wigney acknowledged in his ruling that the Torres Strait Islands and their people are being “ravaged by human induced climate change.” Indigenous people threatened by rising seas face ...

This article contains references to and the names of people who are now deceased.Authors Kyllie Cripps Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ...

One of three men who used a dinghy to haul 110 kilograms of cocaine onto the Australian mainland has been jailed after telling a court he was helping a friend in exchange for a free boat trip.

NATSIMO has revealed three new streams of Lifecycle Grants for 2026, providing $10,000 and $20,000 boosts for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians.

Urgent effective action to improve culturally safe access to screening and follow-up could markedly accelerate cervical cancer elimination among Indigenous women in Australia.

Thursday Island and other islands in the Torres Strait, looking west from above Horn Island, between Australia and New Guinea, March 15, 1991. (PeterTHarris / Wikipedia via Courthouse News) SYDNEY, ...