Torres Strait Islanders (/ ˈ t ɒ r ɪ s-/) are the Indigenous Melanesian people of the Torres Strait Islands, which are part of the state of Queensland, Australia.Ethnically distinct from the Aboriginal people of the rest of Australia, they are often grouped with them as Indigenous Australians.Today there are many more Torres Strait Islander people living in mainland …

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority.It is a collecting, publishing and research institute and is considered to be Australia's premier resource for information about the cultures and societies …

The Torres Strait (/ ˈ t ɒr ɪ s /), also known as Zenadh Kes, is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.It is 151 km (94 mi) wide at its narrowest extent. To the south is Cape York Peninsula, the northernmost extremity of the Australian mainland.To the north is the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.It is named after the Spanish navigator Luís Vaz de …

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea.They span an area of 48,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi), but their total land area is 566 km 2 (219 sq mi).. The Islands have been inhabited by the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) (1990–2005) was the Australian Government body through which Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders were formally involved in the processes of government affecting their lives, established under the Hawke government in 1990. A number of Indigenous programs and organisations fell under the …

Nov 8, 2022 · Among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in 2011, 6% (38,100) identified as Torres Strait Islanders only, while another 4% (25,600) were of both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin. But not all Islanders live on the Torres Strait Islands. 64% of them (24,386) live in Queensland, both the mainland state and the islands.

The voting rights of Indigenous Australians became an issue from the mid-19th century, when responsible government was being granted to Britain's Australian colonies, and suffrage qualifications were being debated. The resolution of universal rights progressed into the mid-20th century. Indigenous Australians, that is Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander …

The flag was first flown on National Aborigines Day in Victoria Square in Adelaide on 9 July 1971. It was also used in Canberra at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy from late 1972. In the early months of the embassy—which was established in February that year—other designs were used, including a black, green and red flag made by supporters of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby …

Indigenous Australian art includes art made by Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including collaborations with others.It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, bark painting, wood carving, rock carving, watercolour painting, sculpting, ceremonial clothing and sand painting; art by Indigenous Australians that pre-dates …

Torres Strait Islander boats. Torres Strait Islander people, another Indigenous Australian group of peoples (who are not Aboriginal), used a different type of boat – a double outrigger, unique to their area and probably introduced from Papuan communities and later modified.