A new chapter for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students begins at Murdoch University this year with the launch of the Boordawan Movement; an initiative designed to support their academic succ...
Delightful song. Waku by #ChristineAnu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXSU4iNdkdE
1936 Torres Strait maritime workers strike https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-18/torres-strait-islanders-commemorate-1936-maritime-strike/106185202
#FirstNations #labourmovement #MaritimeWorkers #MUA #Pearling #Strikes #ThursdayIsland #TorresStrait
#workingclasshistory
Fed up with restrictions over what they earned and where they could go, pearl boat workers embarked on nine months of industrial action that would change the face of their communities forever. Ninety years on, their legacy is still felt across the Torres Strait.
11. Indigenous-led Rights-based Approaches to Climate Litigation: the Torres Strait Eight and Pabai Pabai v Commonwealth of Australia (No 2)
Francis Nona, Indigenous Medical Education, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, QUT
A Just Energy Transition:
Law, Economics, and Public Policy.
A QUT Symposium
QUT Energy Transition Centre
21 November 2025
https://drrimmer.medium.com/a-just-energy-transition-law-economics-and-public-policy-9a68767675a0
#QUT #symposium #justenergytransition #IndigenousIP #climate #litigation #TorresStrait #ZenadthKes #auspol #auslaw
Victoria's treaty is here. What does it mean? And is one coming to my state? - ABC News (November14, 2025)
First Nations people across the world have a complex relationship with treaties, many of which have been fought over, broken and continue to evolve today.
Australia has just seen its first treaty signed between Victorian First Nations people and the state government.
#Indigenous #Aboriginal #TorresStrait #VictoriaFirstNations #Australia #treaty
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-14/first-nations-treaty-potentially-first-of-many/106006576
Australia's first treaty with Aboriginal people signed in Victoria - ABC News (November 12, 2025)
Australia has seen its first ever treaty with Aboriginal people signed and formalised as law today.
It follows nearly a decade of consultation and negotiation between the Victorian government and Indigenous leaders.
#Indigenous #Aboriginal #TorresStrait #VictoriaFirstNations #Australia #treaty
Three #NewSpecies discovered on #Australia's northernmost island https://phys.org/news/2025-10-species-australia-northernmost-island.html
"Dauan Island, a boulder-strewn, 3 sq. km island in the far northern #TorresStrait... has been revealed as a tropical refuge for three species new-to-science—a #gecko and two #frogs—found nowhere else on Earth... the peak that makes up most of the island is made of millions of #granite boulders, many the size of cars and houses, that are piled on top of each other, offering amazing hiding spaces"
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