Torres Strait Islander Archives

Issue #2063

LETTER

Dear Comrade Editor I’ve heard a lot about the possible limitations of the Voice to Parliament. All I’m really hearing is that if a Voice...

Issue #2175

HALF THE SKY

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the fastest-growing prison population, imprisoned at more than 20 times the rate of non-Indigenous women. In addition, they...

Issue #2127

HALF OF THE SKY

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the most incarcerated people on the planet. They make up only 2.5 per cent of the adult female...

Issue #2074

HALF THE SKY

Elle Bee Faith Bandler (1918 - 2015) was an activist and who dedicated her life to civil rights. Her father was from the South Sea Islands and...

Issue #2063

Vinnies for the Voice

The Vinnies for the Voice better known as Vinnies, supports the Yes vote in the coming Voice to Parliament referendum. “The Society urges all Australians...

Invasion Day Melbourne. Woman holding a CPA

Issue #2101

Sorry Day

Sunday 26 May 2024 marks seven years since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was issued by First Nations Peoples “from all points of the...

Issue #2019

DINGO

The proposal by the Albanese government for an Indigenous Voice in parliament would be a body which makes representations to parliament on matters that affect...

Abolish The Monarchy Melbourne/Naarm Rally September 2022.

Issue #2107

Victoria: closure of two prisons recognition of state violence towards Aboriginal people

Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) has welcomed the announcement of the closure of Port Phillip and Dhurringile prisons, saying that prisons represent sites of significant...

Issue #2063

DINGO

The union movement extended its thoughts to the loved ones of the food delivery rider who tragically lost his life in Sydney last week working...

Issue #2020

Stage set for Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Last month, at the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land, prime minister Anthony Albanese released the draft wording that would be inserted into the constitution that...

Issue #2027

Landmark UN decision highlights Australia’s climate injustice

In news that will surprise no one, a United Nations Committee has found the former Coalition government to have violated the human rights of Torres...

Issue #2015

Policy-induced violence

At least one child is killed by a parent every month; one woman is murdered every week by a partner or former partner; another hospitalised...

Issue #2052

ATSILS alert

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (ATSILS) around Australia are calling on the federal government to deliver a $250 million emergency support package to...

Issue #2128

Future Fund – Dirty and deadly

Treasurer Jim Chalmers stirred the Coalition pot when he announced changes to the Future Fund (FF) with its current nest egg of more than $230...

Issue #2138

A new paradigm for native title?

On the 12 March 2025, the High Court of Australia delivered its judgement regarding the case of Commonwealth of Australia v Yunupingu. This decision has...

Saibai Island in the Torres Strait Islands sea level rising on grave yard.

Issue #2155

Federal Court says no to Torres Strait Islanders on climate change

On 14 July a Torres Strait Islander delegation of elders, Paul Kabai and Pabai Pabai, travelled to the Federal Court in Cairns to receive the...

Issue #2087

‘Share power’ governments on Closing the Gap

The Productivity Commission has found governments have largely not fulfilled their commitments under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap and has made four recommendations...

Indigenous women at WOMAD, Adelaide, 2016.

Issue #2120

Indigenous Health

First Nations healthcare today is still fraught with discriminatory practices which have harmful impacts on communities. The gender pain gap – women are more likely...

Issue #2073

Not alright

In arguing for a YES vote for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, we are arguing change. People who oppose the Voice sometimes say that the...

Issue #2115

EDITORIAL

No charges will be laid over Veronica Nelson’s death in custody in 2020. Nelson, a Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman, was...

Issue #2199

Increased voter support for South Australia’s Voice

South Australia’s First Nations Voice is a representative, legislatively created elected body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the state. Commenting on the...

Issue #2148

The Mabo decision at 33

3 June 2025 marks the 33rd Anniversary of the first formal recognition of Indigenous land rights in Australia, as part of National Reconciliation Week. The...