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New co-designed pregnancy app Dangudbila set to improve maternity care across the Top End
A new digital pregnancy education app, Dangudbila, is set to transform how mater...
Phoebe Blogg 17 Jun 2026
Five years on from 'life changing' legal recognition of Torres Strait child-rearing practice
It will soon be five years since 'life-changing' legislation allowed for legal r...
Jarred Cross 15 Jun 2026
Tenders called for redevelopment of Moa Island primary health care centres
Tenders have been called for the redevelopment of the St Paul's and Kubin commun...
Giovanni Torre 2 Mar 2026
Torres Strait student hostel becomes first Indigenous certified boarding house under 'imperative' national framework
A Zenadh Kes student boarding house has joined a small group of Australian board...
Jarred Cross 3 Dec 2025
Torres Strait Islander Occupational Therapist Jena Stephen set to strengthen NDIS access and support
A Torres Strait Islander Occupational Therapist has joined Wakai Waian Healing,...
Tom Hearn 16 Oct 2025
Rachel Bruce appointed as Association of Social Workers' inaugural Torres Strait Islander Director

The Australian Association of Social Workers has proudly announced Rachel Bruce as the Association's first dedicated Torres Strait Islander Director, commencing after the AASW's Annual General Meeting...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 15, 2025
Torres Strait rangers race to stop cane toad invasion

Torres Strait rangers are fighting to defend some of Australia's most remote and pristine islands in Far North Queensland. A live cane toad discovered on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait last month...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 7, 2025
Winds of change revitalise cultural pride in the Torres Strait

Thirty-eight years ago the late Ephraim Bani felt an ancestral duty to revive a lost identity and introduced the Winds of Zenadth Cultural Festival.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Oct 6, 2025
Buway Giz - Connection Before Correction: A Torres Strait restorative justice solution

For more than a decade I have worked in prisons, courts, and communities across Queensland. I have seen firsthand the cycle of incarceration that grips our people.

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Ed Mosby Sep 8, 2025
21st Century science and traditional knowledge combine to protect sea Country

A two-way sharing alliance between the Australian Institute of Marine Science researchers and Indigenous ranger groups from the Kimberley, the Northern Territory and the Torres Strait is building skil...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 9, 2025
Torres Strait school car offers students and staff new route to independence

A Zenadh Kes school has invested in helping its students and staff get their driver's license with a new learner car. Torres Strait Kaziw Meta's boarding students and house parents welcomed what the W...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Jul 7, 2025
A Koike of medicine: Professor Jaquelyne Hughes honoured for transforming health through culture and care

Professor Jaquelyne Hughes, a proud Torres Strait Islander woman and trailblazing nephrologist, has made history as the first Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Fellow of the Royal Australasian Coll...

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Nicole Brown Jul 2, 2025
Play School films first episode in the Torres Strait

ABC's Play School has filmed in the Torres Strait for the first time since the show began in 1966, highlighting local culture and traditions in its new children's series.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jun 21, 2025
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